Topic of Invited talk

1. Ferroelectric Materials and Applications;

2. Phase Field Modeling of Ferroelectric and Magnetic Domains;

3. Strain Mediated Magnetoelectric Memory.

Biography

Prof. Christopher S. Lynch received his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992. He became an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995, and was promoted to Professor in 2005. He joined the UCLA in 2007. With over 2000 citations and an h-index of 21, the work that is listed below is having a significant impact in several areas.

1. Large field constitutive measurements and modeling of ferroelectric ceramic materials began with references 4 (423 citations) and 8 (317 citations) below. This work has sparked many subsequent research programs. 

2. Fatigue and fracture of ferroelectric materials began with reference 5 below (142 citations) and has led to multiple research programs on fatigue behavior in these materials. 

3. More recent work on single crystal piezoelectric materials is having considerable impact on a range of technologies including sonar transducers, medical ultrasound, and is not a platform for exploring nanoscale magnetic / electric coupling. This began with the first identification and characterization of this crystal cut, reference 24 below (85 citations).

4. Piezo-hydraulic pumps were first demonstrated and the results published in reference 17 (58 citations).This work led to the DARPA Compact Hybrid Actuator Program and resulted in commercially available piezo pumps (Kinetic Ceramics) and patents by Baker Hughes for oil well exploration uses.