Our Speakers at the MSE Congress

Our experts will provide insightful talks regarding the recent developments and challenges in the design, characterization, and modeling of new dielectric materials for energy storage, with a particular focus on antiferroelectrics.

Electric Hysteresis of the Antiferroelectric-Ferroelectric Phase Transition

Prof. Dr. Xiaoli Tan Department of Materials Science and Engineering Iowa State University

Xiaoli Tan is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Xiaoli Tan graduated with a B.E. degree in Metallic Materials from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1989, obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2002. He joined Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor in the same year and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, Professor in 2013. His research has been focused on the composition-structure-property interrelationship in electrical ceramics, using in-situ TEM as the primary characterization tool. His has published more than 160 articles in refereed journals; according to Web of Science, his publications have received >5,500 citations with a h-index of 39.

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