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Programme Committee
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Organizing Committee
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Award Committee
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Language
All contributions should be presented in English which is the official language of the Symposium. No simultaneous translation services will be provided.
General Topics
- Growth and Fabrication of Nanostructures
- Nanostructure Characterization and Novel Atomic-Scale Probing Techniques
- Physical Effects in Quantum Wells, Quantum Wires, Quantum Dots and Superlattices
- Novel Device Applications
The emphasis will be on the physics and technology of nanostructures based on III-V, II-VI, IV-IV and IV-VI compounds. However, presentations on other new materials and compositions are also welcome.
Symposium Format
The Symposium programme will comprise invited talks and contributed papers. These latter should be earlier unpublished works that either have been completed or are at their final stages. All contributions will be refereed for technical merit and content by the Programme Committee on the basis of the extended abstracts submitted by authors. Main criteria for paper acceptance are originality, significance of presented results, quality and completeness of the abstracts. The accepted papers will be assigned to either oral or poster presentation at the discretion of the Programme Committee.
Invited and contributed talks will be presented in a single-session format at opening, closing and regular oral sessions. To promote the discussion time the number of oral presentations will be limited to about 60 papers.
There will be a few full-afternoon poster sessions. The total number of poster presentations will be limited to about 100 papers.
Oral presentations will conform to a 30-minute and 20- minute format (including 5 minutes for discussions) for invited and contributed papers, respectively. Each poster presenter will be provided with a 1x1 m board.
AIXTRON Young Scientist Award
Symposium Programme Committee and the Board of AIXTRON AG (Germany) established a special award to honour a young scientist who will present at the Symposium the best paper in the field of solid state nanostructures. The award consists of a diploma and a $ 500 reward sponsored by AIXTRON.
The recipients of the Award are:
- 1999 A. Kovsh (Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia)
- 2000 Th. Gruber (Würzburg University,Würzburg, Germany)
The awardee will be selected by the Award Committee nominated by the Programme Committee from the Symposium participants. The Chair of the Award Committee will announce the winner at the Award Ceremony scheduled for the last day of the Symposium.
Selection Criteria and Conditions of Entry
The competition will be opened to scientists under the age of thirty-five from all over the world. In case of many authors' papers the principal author will be considered as an applicant for the award on behalf of others.
In addition to an extended abstract (no less than 4 pages) an applicant should also submit a separate sheet with complete information about the applicant: name; birthday; Ph.D. degree, if any; postal address; e-mail and fax number, to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
The main selection criterion will be the best demonstration of scientific achievements in the field of physics and technology of solid state nanostructures.
Invited Speakers
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Zhores Alferov Ioffe Institute RAS, St Petersburg, Russia |
Quantum Dots Structures and Lasers |
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Federico Capasso Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, USA |
Micro- and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS and NEMS) based on vacuum fluctuation forces: a new frontier of Nanotechnology |
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Alfred Y. Cho Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, USA |
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of Quantum Devices |
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Jozef T. Devreese Theoretical Solid State Physics, University of Antwerp-UIA, Belgium |
Enhanced probabilities of phonon-assisted optical transitions in semiconductor quantum dots |
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Russell D. Dupuis The University of Texas at Austin Austin, USA |
Properties of InP self-assembled quantum dots embedded in In0.49(AlxGa1-x)0.51P grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
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Bernard Gil Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France |
Excitons in nitride-based low dimensional systems |
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Paul Girard Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France |
Electrostatic force microsopy, principles and applications for semiconductor materials and devices |
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Leonid V. Keldysh Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia |
Dynamic Stark effect for excitons |
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Vladimir Korenev Ioffe Institute RAS, St Petersburg, Russia |
Suppression of Overhauser effect in the exciton-nuclear spin system of GaAs quantum dot |
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Michail Kovalchuk Institute of Crystallography RAS, Moscow, Russia |
X-ray standing wave technique structure-sensitive spectroscopy for nanoscale-samples. New perspectives with Synchrotron radiation |
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Vladimir Kulakovskii Institute of Solid State Physics RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region Russia |
Nonlinear effects in dense two-dimensional exciton-polariton system |
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Xavier MARIE Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée INSA - Département de Physique Complexe scientifique de Rangueil Toulouse, France |
Spin coherence in semiconductor nanostructures |
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Oleg Pchelyakov Institute for Semiconductor Physics SDRAS, Novosibirsk, Russia |
State of the art and perspectives of molecular beam epitaxy development |
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Robert Suris Ioffe Institute RAS, St Petersburg, Russia |
Bloch oscillations in 2D and 3D quantum dot superlattices |
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Kazunobu Tanaka Joint Research Center for Atom Technology, Angstrom Technology Partnership, Tsukuba, Japan |
Advanced silicon nanotechnology at JRCAT |
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Raphael Tsu University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, USA |
Challenges in nanoelectronics |
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Magnus Willander Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg University Göteborg, Sweden |
Nanostructure effects in Si-MOSFETs |
Publication
This year the Organizers are going to assist participants in wider
presentation of their contribitions to the world scientific community. Apart from
the Proceedings traditionally published by the beginning of the Symposium
the Organizers offer participants to publish their full-length papers in
a special issue of the
Institute of Physics
Publishing journals.
Proceedings
The Symposium Proceedings, containing extended abstracts of invited (6 pages) and contributed (4 pages) papers, will be published before the beginning of the Symposium in the same manner as in 1998 and 1999 — from authors' electronic files.
Before the publication, the copyright must be transferred to the Ioffe Institute — one of the Symposium Organizers and the Proceedings publisher. Copyright transfer will take the effect from the date on which the author is notified of the inclusion of his (her) contribution in the Symposium Programme.
Authors are requested to submit in due time a completed Assignment of Copyright Form in hard copy. In the case of multi-author papers, only one of the authors needs to sign the form. This signature assumes that all the authors have agreed to transfer the copyright.
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts is February 1, 2001.
Full-length Papers
The Symposium Organizing Committee and
IoP Publishing Ltd agreed
envisaging publication
of full-length papers presented at the Symposium in a special issue of
Nanotechnology journal.
Authors are requested to inform the Organizers of their intention to submit a full-length paper beforehand (see relevant question in Registration Form). Such information will allow the Organizers to make all the agreements in due time.
Deadline for submission of full-length papers is June 18, 2001.
Submission of Papers
Extended Abstracts
The length of an extended abstract (together with figures), prepared in accordance with the Symposium LaTeX style, must not exceed 6 and 4 pages for invited and contributed papers, respectively.
By February 1, 2001, authors are requested to submit:
- compressed electronic file of an abstract, including:
- LaTeX file of text
- graphic files of figures
- hard copy of an abstract with figures
- completed Registration Form
- completed Assignment of Copyright Form
Files have to be e-mailed to Nikita Vsesvetskii or sent on disk to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
The Proceedings will be composed from authors' electronic files without any scientific or language editing. Only minor corrections may be done during composition.
Hard copies will be a subject for consideration of the Programme Committee and may be used to resolve misunderstandings, if any, in electronic version.
The name of the principal author — a person who has been registered as a participant and will present a paper at the Symposium — should be marked against the other authors.
The Organizers will do their best to assist authors in preparing abstracts. Please do not hesitate to contact Nikita Vsesvetskii on any arising relevant questions.
Symposium LaTeX Style
The Symposium LaTeX style (nanosymp.sty), LaTeX template (template.tex and template.pdf), samples of an abstract (sample.tex and sample.pdf) and a figure (sample.eps) are included in the template.zip. This file should be decoded before running LaTeX.
The template contains some useful examples and comments which will help an author to prepare the LaTeX source code of an abstract.
If anyone does not have necessary LaTeX environment for paper preparation, he (she) can display the LaTeX formatting of template.tex and sample.tex, opening corresponding PDF-files in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Putting together the control sequences (commands) from template.tex and appropriate places of the template print-out, anyone can create a LaTeX source code for own paper. Possible program errors, which may occur at LaTeX translation of an abstract, will be corrected during Proceedings composition.
When author cannot print paper using LaTeX, the paper length should be estimated in symbols (characters plus spaces) or bytes, according to the following proportions:
- one page of LaTeX output without any figures corresponds to 3200 symbols (the same number in bytes with the file saved as text-only)
- the space needed for 50-mm-heigh figure corresponds to 1000-1100 symbols.
Graphic Files
In preparing a graphic file, please, keep in mind that a printed
illustration cannot exceed 126 mm in width
and 160 mm in height. Lettering, line thickness and other details
should be adequate to maintain the acceptable size of the final output: 8-10
points font size and 0.4-1.2 points line thickness are recommended. Bold
fonts for lettering
should be used only in special symbol formatting. Color images
are unacceptable.
The preferred format for graphic files is Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS). In order to get the best results, graphic files
have to meet the following requirements:
- text included in an illustration should be saved as fonts, not as curves
- only standard PostScript fonts Times and Symbol should be used for lettering
- figure captions and numbers should not be included in graphic files
- if a figure consists of several parts (e.g. (a), (b), etc), the part designations should be included at an appropriate place of the figure
- gray-scale images included in EPS-file should be with 100-150 dpi resolution
- gray-scale images should not be saved in RGB mode (this increases the file size dramatically and produces error on PostScript printers)
- files should not include a TIFF or bitmap preview and should have a bounding box which encloses just a figure and not the whole page.
If difficulties are encountered in producing EPS-files, the following formats can also be submitted:
- Adobe Illustrator
- AutoCAD (*.dxf)
- Computer Graphics Metafiles
- CorelDraw (Not CorelPaint !)
- Grapher
- Microcal Origin
- SlideWriter
- Mathcad
- Micrografx Draw
- Plot
- Windows Metafile
- WordPerfect Graphic
Please contact Nikita Vsesvetskii for further assistance.
File sending
On disk
Use DOS-formatted 3.5 or 5.25 in. disk. Send a disk together with a hard copy and completed forms to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
By E-mail
A single compressed file containing LaTeX and graphics files should be sent, as an attachment, to Nikita Vsesvetskii with the following words in the subject line: NANO-2001, a name of the first author (see example in the table bellow).
Sending files without correct subject line and wrong file naming will produce errors and a considerable delay in processing your paper.
File naming, subject line
Use DOS-convention for file naming, according to the following examples:
| First author | LaTeX file | Figure 1 | Compressed file* | Subject line |
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| Smith | smith.tex | smith1.eps | smith.zip | NANO-2001, Smith |
| Johnson | johnson.tex | johnson1.eps | johnson.zip | NANO-2001, Johnson |
| Eisenstein | eisenste.tex | eisenst1.eps | eisenste.zip | NANO-2001, Eisenstein |
* Files may be compressed by "pkzip", "arj", "lha", "rar", "gzip" etc.
Hard copy
A hard copy of the abstract should be printed-out from LaTeX file with figures inserted. If an author does not have necessary program environment or is not familiar with LaTeX, he (she) can use any other programs for printing text together with, or separately from, figures.
Registration
Participants should register preliminarily by sending a filled-in Registration Form. The form may be sent in the online mode or by e-mail or fax.
Registration Fee
The registration fees exclude accommodation and meals, but include a Proceedings copy, welcome reception, excursions, coffee refreshments during the technical sessions, meeting at the airport and transportation to the Symposium site and back.
| before May 28, 2001 | after May 28, 2001 | |
| Participant | $290 | $350 |
| Student* | $170 | $220 |
| Accompanying person | $60 | $60 |
* Students registrations should be accompanied by an appropriate letter from the supervisor confirming the student status.
Accommodation
The majority of participants will be accommodated at Repino, in the Dom Tvorchestva Kinematografistov hotel where the Symposium is to be held. The accommodation rates (full board) for these participants are the following: $45 per person per day for single room and $40 per person per day for double (twin) room. The rooms will be booked from 12.00 of June 17 to 24.00 of June 22, 2001.
The Organizers will offer a hotel located in the downtown for a limited number of participants who will prefer to stay in the city during the Symposium.
Payment
Registration fees and accommodation should be paid in US dollars in advance by a bank transfer. To our great regret, no credit cards or cheques will be acceptable.
Bank details and relevant information concerning the prepayment will be announced later.
Cancellation and Refund
If you have already registered and find that you are not able to come, you must notify the Organizing Committee in writing of your request for cancellation and refund. Refunds will be made upon receipt of a written notice, less a $50 service charge, if received by June 8, 2001. After this date, no refund can been given.
Passport and Visa
A foreigner travelling to Russia must have a valid passport and an appropriate visa. To get a visa, a visitor has to submit to a Russian Embassy or Consulate an official letter of invitation authorised by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Each foreign participant (and accompanying person) will timely get such a letter if he (she) fills-in the relevant fields of the Registration Form and sends this form together with a copy of the first pages of a passport (where all personal data are available) to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee by March 27, 2001, at the latest. A copy of the passport pages should be sent preferably by e-mail as attached graphic file or by fax.
Participants are strongly advised to follow these recommendations and to apply for a visa at once after receiving an original copy of the invitation to ensure that the visa is issued timely.
Social Programme
A Welcome Party will be held on Sunday evening, June 17, 2001. Two excursions to world-famous sights of St Petersburg (covered by the registration fee) will be arranged. The Symposium banquet will be held on Thursday evening, June 22, 2001. By tradition, an amatuer jazz band will accompany the party. This band, named "Jazz Monsters", plays mainstream style and mostly performs the music of the 40s-80s. A special programme for accompanying persons can be organized on their request.
Important Dates
| Deadline for abstract submission | February 1, 2001 |
| Notification of paper acceptance | March 20, 2001 |
| Deadline for personal data submission | March 27, 2001 |
| Deadline for advanced payment | May 28, 2001 |
| Deadline for payment refund | June 8, 2001 |
| Deadline for full-length paper submission | June 18, 2001 |
Registration Form
Assignment of Copyright Form
Correspondence
Secretary of the Organizing Committee:
B. Egorov
Ioffe Institute, 26 Polytechnicheskaya, St Petersburg 194021, Russia
Phone: (812) 247-2617, 247-4059
Fax: (812) 247-1017, 247-8640
E-mail: boris.egorov@pop.ioffe.rssi.ru
Updated April 18, 2001