St Petersburg, Russia, 17–21, June 2002

ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

Organizers

• Scientific Engineering Center for Microelectronics at the Ioffe Institute
• Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute

in association with

Institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Division of General Physics and Astronomy
• St Petersburg Scientific Center
• Ministry of Industrie, Science and Technologies of Russia
• Research Council for the Project Physics of Solid State Nanostructures

Co-Chairs

• Zh. ALFEROV (Russia)
• L. ESAKI (Japan)

Sponsors

• Russian Academy of Sciences
• Ministry of Industrie, Science and Technologies of Russia
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research
• AIXTRON AG, Germany
• European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• United States Air Force Research Laboratory
• United States Office of Naval Research, Europe
• U.S. Army Research Laboratory European Research Office
• SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering

Foreword

The annual International Symposium on Nanostructures is chaired by two Nobel Prize winners, Professor Zh Alferov and Professor L Esaki, and is traditionally organized by the Ioffe Institute that is still pioneering in many directions of this impetuously developing area. The Symposium was launched in 1993 by its Co-Chairs as one of the first in an area that now is becoming one of the leading within modern solid state physics and technology.

The aim of this Symposium is to focus on the newest achievements in physics, technology and applications of the solid state nanostructures and to bring together in the meeting various groups working actively in these very important directions all over the world. The Symposium scientific program will cover a wide range spectrum of physical phenomena, both basic and applied, and technological aspects related to nanostructures.

Location and Date

This is the time of so-called "White Nights" in St Petersburg and we are certain that you and your family will also enjoy the many cultural places that St Petersburg and its suburbs offers.

Symposium Committees

International Advisory Committee

Programme Committee

Organizing Committee

Language

All contributions should be presented in English that 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. The 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 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 AG.

The recipients of this Award are:

1999	A. Kovsh (Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia)
2000	Th. Gruber (Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany)
2001	I. Shorubalko (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)

The awardee will be selected by the Award Committee from the Symposium participants nominated by the Programme Committee. 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

Gerhard Abstreiter Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, München, Germany	Control of charge and spin in novel semiconductor nanostructure devices
Pulickel Ajayan Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA	Building architectures with carbon nanotubes and exploring their applications
Manfred Bayer Technical Physics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany	Entangled exciton state in quantum dot molecules
Paola Borri Experimental Physics II b, University of Dortmund, Germany	Temperature dependent homogeneous broadening and gain recovery dynamics in InGaAs quantum dots
Guido Burkard Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland	Spintronics and quantum information processing in nanostructures
Connie J. Chang-Hasnain Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA	A new look at quantum dot devices and their enabling applications
Laurence Eaves School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom	Tunnel spectroscopy of self-assembled quantum dots: wavefunction mapping and addressing the dots with electrostatic gates
Jochen Feldmann Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany	Optical switching and sensing with individual nanoparticles
Sergey Ganichev Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany	Circular photogalvanic effects induced by spin orientation in quantum wells
Patrik Hoffmann Institute of Imaging and Applied Optics, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland	Limits of 3-D nanostructures fabricated by focused electron beam (FEB) induced deposition
Eougueniious Ivchenko Ioffe Institute, Russia	Electron-hole exchange interaction in nanostructures
Klaus von Klitzing Max-Planck-Institute FKF, Stuttgart, Germany	Physics and applications of Quantum Hall effects
Igor Kukushkin Institute for Solid State Physics Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia	Microwave spectroscopy of composite fermions
Noboru Miura Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan	Magneto-optical and cyclotron resonance study of semiconductor nanostructures in very high magnetic fields
Bo Monemar Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linkoeping University, Sweden	Optical properties of InGaN/GaN and AlGaN/GaN multiple quantum well structures
Pierre Petroff Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA	Nanoscale self assembly and physics with semiconductors
Gernot Pomrenke Directorate of Physics and Electronics, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA	Photonic Nanostructures
Jan Schmidt Huygens Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands	Optical and magnetic-resonance spectroscopy of single molecules
Gregory Snider Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA	Experimental progress in quantum-dot cellular automata
Michael Shur Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA	Nanostructures on flexible substrates
Joachim Wolter Semiconductor Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands	Challenges in integration of opto-electronic quantum devices on InP

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 the last three years — 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, 2002.

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, 2002	after May 28, 2002
Participant	$330	$380
Student*	$200	$250
Accompanying person	$70	$70

* Students registrations should be accompanied by an appropriate letter from the supervisor confirming the student status.

Accommodation

It is supposed that during the trip all participants will be accommodated at a comfortable ship. The complete information on participants'accommodation during the Symposium (room rates, full board) will be announced in due time.

Payment

Registration fees and accommodation costs 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, 2002. 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 authorized 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, 2002, 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

Important Dates

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