Scientific topics (sections) of the Workshop:
- 1. Fabrication technology of complex oxides (bulk single crystals, epitaxial films, polycrystals and ceramics, composition materials and nano-sized structures)
- 2. Crystal structure, twinning and microstructure of oxide compounds
- 3. Oxide materials for quantum and optoelectronics
- 4. Scintillator materials and detectors of radiation
- 5. Defects, impurities and transport phenomena in oxide crystals
- 6. Magnetic and magneto-optic properties of oxides
- 7. Application of oxides in electronic engineering and transducer devices
History
In 1772, following the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the city, known in German as Lemberg, became the capital of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. After Poland was reconstituted following World War I, Lviv was the centre of ethnic-political controversy and tension between nationalistic Austro-Germans, Poles, Jews, and Ukranians, for a short time becoming the capital of the Western Ukrainian Republic, eventually it was conquered by the newly reestablished Poland. After World War II Poland's borders were relocated generally towards the west and the city fell to the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the U.S.S.R. it became part of the newly independent Ukraine—for which it currently serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, and designated as its own raion (district) within that oblast.