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[sdpd] X-ray Symposium, EMRS Fall Meeting 2007



Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate to the *symposium H: "Current 
Trends in Optical and X-ray Metrology of Advanced Materials and Devices 
II" *in 2007 E-MRS Fall Meeting, 17th-21st of September 2007 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract deadline is May 14th, 2007

For any additional information see Conference web-site: 
http://www.e-mrs.org/meetings/fall2007/
We kindly ask you to forward this message to your contact group.

This E-MRS symposium is aimed to:

-      give an overview of the current status of optical and x-ray 
metrology for materials characterization and quality assurance of thin 
films, layer-structured materials, and one-dimensional nanomaterials, 
with a particular emphasis on state-of-the-art metrology

-      promote and encourage the interaction between academic and 
industrial research (instrument manufacture, IC and optoelectronics 
industry and materials suppliers) to address scientific and 
technological challenges associated with the improvement of standard 
analytical methods and qualification of newer techniques.

First we would like to highlight the trends and advances in the 
techniques of optical and X-ray metrology for thin film materials, 
nanowires and nanotubes and secondly, we will address the application of 
such techniques to the study of thin-layered, wide band gap nitrides and 
functional oxide films (high-k dielectrics, ferroelectrics, ZnO and 
novel p-type transparent conductive oxides), as well as nanotubes and 
nanowires based on these materials.

As manufacturing processes become more complicated, it is imperative to 
employ in-situ metrology; this is particularly true in the 
microelectronics and micro-systems industry, such as compound 
semiconductor electronics, photonics, MEMS and sensors.

Among the various X-ray-based methods, standard X-ray diffractometry, 
X-ray reflectivity and diffuse scattering are acquiring an increasing 
relevance for characterization of materials and devices in academic and 
industrial laboratories, since these techniques are rapid, high 
resolution, non-destructive and non-contacting. In addition, the 
availability of high brilliance X-ray Synchrotron sources and the recent 
development of new X-ray scattering techniques offers new opportunities 
for non-destructive characterization of microstructures and the unique 
opportunity of characterization of micrometer-sized (or smaller) objects.

The current trends in optical metrology mainly concern spectroscopic 
ellipsometry (SE), polarisation and modulation spectroscopy, anisotropic 
reflectance and Near Field Optical Microscopy (nanoRaman).
Both optical and X-ray related techniques have gained considerable 
interest in the last decade and are currently involved in the 
characterization of thin film materials and nanomaterials.  In this 
symposium, these methods will be discussed with particular attention 
paid to their application, as well as their limitations and 
complementarities.

On behalf the organisers,
Olivier Durand

THALES Research & Technology France
Route Départementale 128
F-91767 Palaiseau cedex

Phone : +33(0)1 69 41 57 78
Fax: +33(0)1 69 41 57 38

Courriel /e-mail : olivier.durand...@thalesgroup.com


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Daniel Chateigner
Professeur
Co-editor "Journal of Applied Crystallography", www.iucr.org
Editor-in-Chief "Texture, Stress and Microstructure", www.hindawi.com
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address: CRISMAT-ENSICAEN and IUT-Caen, 
Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, campus 2
6, Bd. M. Juin 14050 Caen, France
tel: 33 (0)2 31 45 26 11
fax: 33 (0)2 31 95 16 00
daniel.chateigner...@ensicaen.fr
http://www.ecole.ensicaen.fr/~chateign/danielc/
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http://qta.ecole.ensicaen.fr/
An Open Source for Crystallographic Data: the COD
http://www.cristal.org/cod/
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