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ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION (ALD) WORKSHOP
Prof. Anjana Devi had an invited talk about "Tuning precursor characteristics for ALD applications" at the ALD Workshop at the IMEC conference, which took part November 28th-29th, 2011, in Leuven, Belgium. IMEC performs world-leading research in nano-electronics and nano-technology. Imec’s research is applied in better healthcare, smart electronics, sustainable energy, and safer transport. To promote collaboration and the exchange of knowledge within Europe, as well as to discuss about new trends and opportunities, imec organizes a workshop on the principles and use of ALD. The workshop is organized by Imec Belgium and Imec-NL. The workshop will take place at imec’s research facilities in Leuven, Belgium.
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CALIFA CONSORTIUM MEETING IN LA LAGUNA
The CALIFA collaboration will celebrate a 2nd Busy Week the 29th of November to the 2nd of December 2011 (both included). PD Dr. Dominik Bomans is going to participate in that meeting.
The main goals of this meeting are: To put in common the current status of the first generation of science articles, stimulating the collaboration between the different groups and to prepare the data release of the first data sets.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE FRONTIERS OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS (FFP12) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE, ITALY
Academician Professor Padma Kant Shukla CorrFRSE and Foreign Member 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 Relativistic Nonlinear Quantum Plasmas at Nanoscales at the International Symposium on the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics (21-23 November 2011) at the University of Udine, Italy. The Symposium focused on various aspects of condensed matter physics, statistical physics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, emerging areas of plasma physics (e.g. plasma assisted nanotechnology and high energy density plasmas, plasma based charged particle acceleration, etc.), and nonlinear sciences.
The Symposium was organized by Prof. Marisa Michelini (University of Udine) and Prof. Gautam Sidharth Burra (DG, B. M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India) together with an International Advisory Board composed of several members including the honorary chair Nobel Laureate (NL) Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University, California), Prof. Walter Greiner (Director, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany), and RUB International Chair holder Prof. Padma Kant Shukla. During the opening ceremony of the Symposium, Prof. Shukla emphasized the importance of international scientific collaboration, in addition to presenting the plenary talk dealing with the table-top quantum free-electron lasers, thereby exploring new quantum x-ray and gamma ray regimes by using super-intense short laser pulses and relativistic electron beams in dense plasmas. This is one of the innovative approaches in emerging and cutting edge areas of plasma physics that holds the promise of producing high-power coherent radiation sources in the new parameter regimes that are going to set a new horizon in applied physics. At the FFP12, the Nobel Laureate Prof. Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University, California and The National Academy of Sciences, Washigton, USA), the 1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of the superfluidity in Helium 3, presented a special lecture on How (Experimental) Advances in Science are Made? Specifically, the NL Osheroff focused on the innovation, as well as on innovative and curiosity-driven challenging researches in physical sciences.
In the photo: Professor Padma Kant Shukla and the Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Douglas D. Osheroff.
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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.
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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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Fall meeting Plasma Germany at the RUB
The fall meeting of the Competence Network for Plasma Surface Technology will have been held on November 14-15, 2011 at the Chair of Applied Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology (AEPT) of the Ruhr-University Bochum (Building ID / Floor 03 / Room 653).
http://www.plasmagermany.org/ak-sitzungen-details/items/herbstsitzung-2011.html
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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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16. European Summer School
16. European Summer School, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, 8.-15. Oktober 2011
“Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications” 8.-13. Oktober) und
Masterclass "Plasma Coatings on Polymers" (14./15. Oktober)
http://plasma-school.org
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Workshop "Cosmic Rays and the Heliospheric Plasma Environment"
The workshop "Cosmic Rays and the Heliospheric Plasma Environment", organized by PD Dr. Horst Fichtner, has been held at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from September 12 to 16, 2011.
http://helio_cr.tp4.rub.de/Bochum/index.php