Introduction to multifunctional polycrystalline ferroelectric materials\nJ. Ricote and L. Pardo (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain)

1 - Advances in processing of bulk ferroelectric materials\nC. Galassi (ISTEC-CNR, Italy)

2 - Processing of ferroelectric ceramic thick films\nM. Kosec, D. Kuscer, J. Holc (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

3 - Tailored liquid alkoxides for the chemical solution processing of Pb-free ferroelectric thin films\nK. Kato (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

4 - Ferroelectrics onto substrates prepared by Chemical Solution Deposition: from the thin film to the self-assembled nanosized structures\nM.L. Calzada (Inst. Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Spain.)

5 - Approaches towards the minimisation of toxicity in CSD processes of lead-based ferroelectric thin films\nI. Bretos, M.L. Calzada (Inst. Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Spain.)

6 - Synchrotron radiation diffraction and scattering in ferroelectrics\nL. Fuentes (Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados, México.)

7 - X-Ray absorption fine structure applied to ferrolectrics\nM.E. Montero Cabrera (Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados, Mexico)

8 - Quantitative texture analysis of polycrystalline ferroelectrics\nD. Chateigner and J. Ricote (CRISMAT-ENSICAEN, Université de Caen Basse Normandie, France and Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain)

9 - Nanoscale investigation of polycrystalline ferroelectric materials via piezoresponse force microscopy\nV.V. Shvartsman and A.L. Kholkin (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal)

10 - Mechanical properties of Ferro-Piezoceramics\nD.C. Lupascu and J Schröder (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany), C.S. Lynch (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Wolfgang Kreher (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) and\nIlona Westram (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

11 - The elastic properties of ferroelectric thin films using nanoindentation\nC. Chima-Okereke, W.L. Roberts, A.J. Bushby and M.J. Reece, (Centre for Materials Research and School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary London, UK)

12 - Pyroelectricity in polycrystalline ferroelectrics\nR. Jimenez and B. Jimenez (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain)

13 - Properties of ferro-piezoelectric ceramic materials in the linear range: determination from impedance measurements at resonance\nL. Pardo and K. Brebol (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), Spain)

14 - Domain engineered ceramic resonators\nJ. Erhart (Department of Physics and International Center for Piezoelectric Research, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)

15 - Non-linear behaviour of piezoelectric ceramics\nA .Alfons and P. Rafel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

16 - Piezoelectric transducers for structural health monitoring: modelling and imaging\nF. Montero de Espinosa and Y. Gomez Ullate (Instituto de Acústica, Madrid, Spain)