Participation in the International School of Oxide Electronics

Somnath-Dadabhau Kale (a post-doctoral researcher at CEA IRAMIS) and Eun Jin Koh (a PhD student at CEA IRAMIS) participated in the International School of Oxide Electronics 2025 (ISOE 2025), held from July 8 till July 18 at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse (Cargèse, France).

During the summer school, speakers gave lectures on ferroelectrics, ferromagnetism, multiferroics, and characterization methods. Karim Bouzehouane, from Laboratoire Albert Fert, gave a lecture on scanning probe microscopies, explaining the principles of atomic force microscopy and its applications. Martina Müller, from Universität Konstanz, lectured on the principles of X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) and its use in chemical state analysis, such as binding energy determination and oxygen vacancy characterization.

In addition to the lectures, students were given the opportunity to present their own work. Somnath-Dadabhau Kale presented his research titled “Investigating polarization switching and retention in H0.6Z0.4O2 thin films using piezoresponse force and photoemission electron microscopy”, while Eun Jin Koh presented “Stoichiometry analysis of atomic layer deposition of ferroelectric Hf₁₋ₓZrₓO₂”. More than 80 students and speakers from around the world (USA, Singapore, Japan, etc.) participated in the summer school, creating opportunities to network and discuss their research.

This work was supported by the Ferro4EdgeAI project.