From November 18 to 21, 2024, Mojca Otoničar, Danjela Kuščer, Barbara Malič, and Tina Ručigaj Korošec from the Department of Electronic Ceramics, with the help of all colleagues from the department, organized an international school on ferroelectrics called ‘Ferroschool’, which took place at JSI. The four-day event was sponsored by the international IEEE UFFC-S (Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society), and was aimed at educating younger colleagues from the field of ferroelectrics. The participants, who also presented their work in posters, came from numerous European countries, as well as from Japan, South Korea, India, and the United States. The school hosted fourteen foreign and Slovenian lecturers that covered a wide range of topics, from the physics of ferroelectrics, simulations of defected structures and machine learning, material synthesis, to analytical methods of detecting and evaluating the properties, and applications of ferroelectrics in electronic devices.

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