The last decade has witnessed significant advances in oxide thin films that possess unique magnetic, optical, superconducting, semiconducting, optical, and dielectric properties. The aim of this symposium is to bring together scientists working on different areas of oxide film deposition, processing, characterization, and device integration in an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of recent advances and future trends, with particular emphasis on the relationship between nanostructure and functionality. The symposium will also address basic aspects of physics, chemistry, and engineering of oxide layers for microelectronics, sensing, catalysis, nanophotonics, and optoelectronics.

Topical sessions will be dedicated to:

• Deposition and nanoscale fabrication of multifunctional oxides
• Nanometrology of oxide films
• Characterization of nanostructure, interfaces, and defects
• Synthesis, structuring, and manipulation of new materials: nanotubes, nanorods, nanotapes, clusters, and nanoparticles
• Optical emission and lasing from nanostructures and thin films
• Superconducting oxides
• Ferroelectric and dielectric oxides
• Magnetic and electro-optic oxides
• Transparent and conducting oxides
• Multifunctional oxides on silicon and compound semiconductors
• Theory and modeling of functional properties and nanostructure
• Characterization of microstructure and correlations with properties

Joint sessions are anticipated with Symposia G: Science and Technology of Nonvolatile Memories, and HH: Recent Advances in Superconductivity.

Invited speakers (tentative) include: Cammy Abernathy (Univ. of Florida), Orlando Auciello (Argonne National Lab.), Ian W. Boyd (Univ. College London, United Kingdom), David Christen (Oak Ridge National Lab), A. Gupta (Univ. of Alabama), T. Kawai (Japan), Murli Krishna (General Electric, Inc.), Jean-Pierre Loquet (IBM-Zurich, Switzerland), Neil Mathur (Cambridge Univ., United Kingdom), Quentin Pankhurst (London Nanotechnology Ctr.), R. Ramesh (Univ. of California-Berkeley), and P. Siedel (Friedrich-Schiller Univ.-Jena, Germany).

D. Kumar
North Carolina A&T State University
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Greensboro, NC 27411
Tel 336-256-1151 x-2101
Fax 336-256-1153
dkumar@ncat.edu

Valentin Craciun
University of Florida
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
P.O. Box 116400
Gainesville, FL 32611-6400
Tel 352-392-1032
Fax 352-392-0390
vcrac@mse.ufl.edu

Marin Alexe
Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics
Weinberg 2
D-06120 Halle/Saale,
Germany
Tel 49-345-5582-705
Fax 49-345-5511-223
malexe@mpi-halle.de

Kaushal K. Singh
Applied Materials Inc.
MS 81-288
2118 San Rafael Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Tel 408-584-1397
Fax 408-584-1408
kaushal_k_singh@amat.com