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PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM AT THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Academician Professor Padma Kant Shukla CorrFRSE and FORMemb of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) was invited to deliver a plenary talk on Dusty Plasmas at the Physics Symposium (15-17 November 2011) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) that awards the Nobel Prize in Physics. The meeting was focused on the cutting edge physics of multi-disciplinary sciences and was hosted by the Academy's Physics Class Chair Björn Jonson. At the Physics Symosium, Academician Ludwig Faddeev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and Academician Steven Girvin of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA delivered plenary talks as well.
In the photo: Professor Padma Kant Shukla (RUB International Chair holder) and the Physics Nobel Prize Chair Börje Johansson in the Academy meeting room where the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemsitry, and Medicine is annually announced.
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64TH GASEOUS ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE IN SALT LAKE CITY
The 64th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) is, together with the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, held November 4th-18th, 2011 in Salt Lake City, USA. This year, the GEC contains 37 invited talks, 209 oral talks and 175 poster presentations with topics ranging from fundamental studies of for example Electron and photon collisions with atoms and molecules, to plasma applications such as processing of materials or treatment of living tissues. The “Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions “of RUB is represented very well this year. Thirteen researches are visiting the conference with three invited talks (Jan Benedikt talks about the diagnostics of atmospheric pressure plasma jets, Julian Schulze discusses the electric asymmetry effect in capacitively coupled discharges, and Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki gives a talk at the Monday workshop "Control of Distribution Functions in Low Temperature Plasmas: Creating the Roadmap"), 9 oral talks and 10 posters. This counts for almost 5% of all contributions at the conference and illustrates the leading position of RUB in the low temperature plasma research!
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INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM: JAPAN WEEK
The Interdisciplinary Symposium presents the scientific cooperation between RUB and its Japanese partner universities. German and Japanese scientists who work intensively together report on their cooperation experiences and present the results of their joint research. Students and scientists of all faculties who are working with Japanese partners, who are interested in a cooperation or who are interested in Japan-related research topics are cordially invited to attend the Interdisciplinary Symposium. This will have been held on Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 4-6 p.m. in the Event Center.
Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy) will give a lecture on "Scientific Exchange with Japan in Plasma Physics and Technology".
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION OF THE AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY
AVS 58th International Symposium and Exhibition of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) was held in Nashville, Tennessee, USA between 30th of October and 4th of November, 2011. AVS is a membership organization that fosters networking among professionals in the materials, interfaces, and processing communities. This symposium is an international meeting point for them. More than 3,000 attendees and 200 exhibitors gathered together to exchange the latest breakthroughs in science and technology this year. Between main topics were Graphene, nanostructured materials for solar-based applications, atomic layer deposition or properties and application of variety of thin films. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum and its Research Department “Plasmas with Complex Interactions” has been represented by Jun.-Prof. Jan Benedikt, who gave a talk with the title “Deposition of SiOx films by means of atmospheric pressure microplasma jet: the study of deposition mechanism”. The results generated within the project C1 of the Research Group 1123 “Physics of Microplasmas” (FOR 1123) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) were presented and discussed.
58th International Symposium and Exhibition of the American Vacuum Society
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RD PLASMA AT THE ICPIG 2011 CONFERENCE
RD Plasma was also represented at the ICPIG at Queen's University Belfast: PhD students Hendrik Bahre and Daniel Schröder, and PIs Ilija Stefanovic and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen.
The 30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG) was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on August 28th – September 2nd 2011. The 30th ICPIG covered a wide range of fundamental and applied aspects of ionized gases. This conference emphasised interdisciplinary research and fostered exchange between different communities.
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EUROCVD 18 IN IRELAND
The EuroCVD 18 conference will take place in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland from the 4th – 9th September 2011. The meeting will be held at the Actons hotel, which is along the harbour at Kinsale. The conference will continue the biannual series of European CVD conferences, which started in Paris (1977). EuroCVD 18 will offer a high quality scientific programme, with invited and contributed lectures by the world’s leading CVD researchers, a comprehensive review of the most recent research on chemical vapour deposition and related topics.
Prof. Roland A. Fischer represents as a member of the International Advisory Board both the Materials Research Department (MRD) and the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions. Prof. Anjana Devi will give an invited talk about "The ‘Old Chemistries’ for New Applications: Perspectives for development of MOCVD and ALD precursors", Prof. Roland A. Fischer will talk about "A Dual Application using Guanidinate and Amidinate Precursors: Lanthanum Oxide and nitride Films by MOCVD", and Daniela Bekermann will talk about "Development of Co3O4-Based Nanomaterials for Gas Sensing Applications". Other research results will be presented on posters by H. Parala, K. Xu, M. Krasnopolski, S. Kim, V. Gwildies, M. Banerjee, and N. Srinivasan.
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20TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLASMA CHEMISTRY IN PHILADELPHIA USA
The 20th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry was held in Philadelphia USA at Loews Hotel July 24 - 29, 2011. ISPC is a bi-annual international conference with topics encompassing the whole area of plasma chemistry and processing science. The aim of the symposium is to present the recent progress in plasma chemistry and its applications.
The symposium was organized to include plenary lectures, invited and contributed oral presentations, poster sessions, and a special session on Plasma Biology and Medicine. The whole area of plasma processing from fundamentals to applications was covered. The official language of the symposium is English.
Prof. Jörg Winter held a plenary lecture about "Understanding Microplasmas".
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WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND RELATED TOPICS
On July 11 and 12, the "International Workshop on Advanced Electrical Engineering and Related Topics" in Electrical Engineering will have been held jointly with Kyushu University (Japan). The Japanese speakers are Prof. Masanobu Miyao, Prof. Masaharu Shiratani, Prof. Giichiro Uchida, Prof. Kohei Higashigawa, Prof. Hirofumi Watanabe, Prof. Takashi Yoshida and Prof. Terumitsu Tanaka. From RUB, Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki, Prof. Martin Hofmann, Prof. Ilona Rolfes, Prof. Peter Awakowicz, Prof. Ralf Peter Brinkmann and Prof. Nils Pohl are involved.
The talks will take place in ID 04 / 471, the poster session (26 posters) on Monday in ID 04 / 459 starting at 15:00. Interested parties are welcome!
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (EPS) - 38TH CONFERENCE ON PLASMA PHYSICS IN STRASBOURG
Die European Physical Society (EPS) veranstaltete in Straßburg die 38th Conference on Plasma Physics vom 27. Juni bis 1. Juli 2011. Das Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions" vertraten dort Prof. Jörg Winter, Prof. Peter Awakowicz und Dr. Ilija Stefanovic.
Prof. Winter war auf der Konferenz in der Funktion des stellv. Vorsitzenden des Vorstandes der EPS Plasma Physics Division, Prof. Awakowicz hielt einen Vortrag über "Fundamental processes in plasma technologies", und Dr. Stefanovic sprach über "Diagnostics of plasma kinetics in dusty plasmas".
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ICMCTF 2011 - 38TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METARLLURGICAL COATINGS & THIN FILMS
Four members of the the Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions" and of the SFB-TR 87 attended the ICMCTF conference in San Diego. The participants were namely Teresa de los Arcos, Carles Corbella, Ante Hecimovic, and Marina Prenzel. Everybody had a contribution to this conference and the presentation had a good resonance, which supports the impact of the research within the RD Plasma respectively SFB-TR 87. As a consequence, new connections to other research groups were established.
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IXTH WORKSHOP ON FRONTIERS IN LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS (FLTPD IX)
A group of 11 researchers from the Research Department „Plasmas with Complex Interactions“ and the Research Unit FOR 1123 „Physics of Microplasmas“ participated in the Workshop on Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (FLTPD IX) in Zinnowitz, Usedom (Germany). In total they presented a number of 15 contributions including 2 invited and 3 topical talks. The meeting was the IXth in a series of very successful biannual workshops and brought together experts in the field of low temperature plasma diagnostics. It was an important and fruitful opportunity for a new generation of plasma scientists to share and discuss the knowledge of these diagnostics with the leading scientists of this field.
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E-MRS 2011 SPRING MEETING
Prof. Dr. Anjana Devi hatte auf dem E-MRS 2011 Spring Meeting, welches vom 9.-13. Mai 2011 in Nizza, Frankreich stattfand, einen eingeladenen Vortrag über "Rare-earth doped HfO2 films grown by MOCVD and ALD". Hierdurch wurden sowohl das Materials Research Department (MRD) als auch das Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions" repräsentiert.
Resume: Doping of rare-earth metal oxide in HfO2 has gained considerable interest especially for higher permittivity (k) dielectrics in logic and memory devices. The doping is intended to increase the crystallization temperature, stabilize the cubic phase of HfO2 and reduce the leakage currents. Another promising area is that the Gd doping of HfO2 could lead to a dilute magnetic semiconductor. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) are preferred techniques for growing high quality layers especially for the above mentioned applications. In this presentation, we have demonstrated the growth of rare-earth doped HfO2 films by ALD and MOCVD using the guanidinate class of precursors which possess the prerequisites for ideal ALD and MOCVD processes. The crystalline structure, microstructure and composition of the films were investigated by means of several techniques that include XRD, SEM, AFM, RBS, XPS and AES. The XRD analysis reveals that Gd doping stabilises the higher-k tetragonal phase. Optical measurements were carried out using ellipsometry and Raman spectroscopy and finally the electrical measurements were performed.