MS-054: Functional thin films: crystallography’s next frontier

Name: Twenty-Seventh Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography
Start: 2026-08-10T14:00:00Z
End: 2026-08-19T03:00:00Z
Location: The BMO Centre, Stampede Park

Co-Chairs: Rebecca Smaha & Daniel Sando

Sponsoring Commission: Crystallography of Materials

Co-Sponsoring Commission: Powder Diffraction

Supporting Commission: Magnetic Structures

This microsymposium will focus on the structural characterization of functional thin films that are critical to energy and quantum technologies, both as prepared and under external stimuli. Topics include catalysis, solar energy materials, semiconductors, piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics, as well as materials for quantum information science and spintronics.