ITFPC 2011 & MIATEC 2011
The Innovations in Thin Film Processing and Characterisation & Magnetron, Ion processing and Arc Technologies European Conference (ITFPC & MIATEC 2011) was held in Nancy, France, from 14th to 17th November, 2011. The aim of the conference is to promote thin film growth techniques and processes, contribution of characterisation techniques to thin film science and engineering, process diagnostics, modelling and numerical simulation and applications and functional properties. The conference was a great opportunity to present and observe recent progress in research of magnetron and ion processing technologies. It had one dedicated sessions for High Impulse Power Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS), where recent achievements in the field were presented. Prof. Dr. Jörg Winter, Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell, Dipl-Phys. Marina Prenzel and Dr. Ante Hecimovic attended the conference where they had a chance to find about the latest achievements in the field of magnetron plasma, furthermore they made valuable contacts with experts from the field and agreed on future collaborations.