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Diamond is one of the best known allotropes of carbon useful for both industrial applications and jewellery. Diamond has a track record of extremes, including ultra-hardness, higher thermal conductivity than any other solid material and transparency from deep infra-red to the ultraviolet light. With the continuing advances being made in the production of synthetic diamond, future applications are beginning to become feasible like heat sinks in GaN power electronics and high Q micro- and nano-electromechanical oscillators. Pure diamond is an electrical insulator, but doped, it can become a semiconductor with exceptional properties. It can be used for detecting ultraviolet light, for ultraviolet light-emitting diodes and optics, high-power electronics and due to its chemical inertness and bio-compatibility as exceptional good chemical and biochemical sensor. Significant research efforts in Japan, Europe, China and the United States are under way to capitalize on the potential offered by diamond's unique material properties, combined with increased quality and quantity of supply starting to become available from synthetic diamond manufacturers. In addition, applications in quantum spintronics attracts increasing interest , as this could lead to a practical quantum computer - capable of feats believed impossible for regular computers—and ultra-secure communication.

Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes have stimulated remarkable experimental and theoretical developments in nanotechnology over the last years. The unique structure and properties of sp2 carbon networks endows exceptional mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical and optical properties. Significant activities are on the way to replace transparent conductive oxides and metals by graphene, to utilize the exceptional electronic properties of graphene in RF transistors and in flexible electronics. In addition, diamond like carbon (DLC), amorphous or glassy carbon, Fullerenes, graphite and organic conductors are developed and applied for increasing markets.

The potential of carbon based materials in electronic devices will continuously increase in the years to come due to a variety of properties which only carbon allotropes have like chemical stability in physiological solutions, and bio-compatibility to name two. Taking into account the large variety of organic chemistry which is already available to modify and tune carbon surfaces all kinds of bio-sensors will be realized sooner or later by these materials.

Scope of the conference

The conference will be annually organized and taking place at selected venues all over the world. Program topics of the conference will relate to carbon-based materials like:

• diamond,
• graphene,
• carbon nano-tubes,
• fullerenes,
• diamond-like-carbon,
• amorphous carbon,
• graphite
• organic conductors.

The integration of “new” topics like “graphene” is considered as major challenge and task to ensure that this meeting will remain a leading conference for carbon electronic applications.