SITGES, SPAIN • 7-11 SEPTEMBER 2008

Invited Speakers

The following experts have agreed to speak at the conference, additional speakers will be confirmed in due course:

  • Ali BenMoussa, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium
    Recent developments on wide bandgap based UV sensors

  • Juergen Biener, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    Diamond for fusion applications

  • James Butler, Naval Research Labs, USA
     CVD diamond growth mechanisms – revisited

  • John Foord, Oxford University, UK
     Electrochemistry of diamond surfaces

  • Masataka Hasegawa, AIST, Japan
     Low temperature growth of nano-diamond

  • Robert Hauge, Rice University, USA
    Growth of nanotube mats

  • Russell Hemley, Carnegie Institute, USA
     High growth rate diamond

  • Dean Ho, North Western University, USA
     Drug delivery by nanodiamond

  • Robert Jones, University of Exeter, UK
    Dislocations, vacancy aggregates and brown colour of diamond

  • Hiro Kataura, AIST, Japan
    Separation of nanotubes

  • H. Kodama Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Japan
    High speed synthesis of amorphous carbon films on polymer substrates

  • Yasuo Koide, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
    Photo detectors

  • Anke Krueger, University of Kiel, Germany
     Functionalisation of nanodiamond surfaces

  • Christoph Nebel, AIST, Japan
     Bio-sensors from diamond

  • Eiji Osawa, Shinshu University, Japan
     Recent progress in nanodiamond

  • Atsuhito Sawabe, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
     Progress in hetero-epitaxial growth of diamond

  • Thomas Seyller, University of Erlangen, Germany
     Production and electronic structure of graphene

  • François Silva, University Paris 13, France
    High quality, large surface area, homoepitaxial MPECVD diamond growth

  • Tetsuya Suzuki, Keio University, Japan
    High speed synthesis of amorphous carbon films on polymer substrates

  • Akihiko Ueda, Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD
    Field emission devices

  • Wenjun Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, China
     Growth, nano-structuring and properties of cBN films