Last modified: Sep 2, 2021

Scope

The organizing committee welcomes researchers and students with interests in the science and technology of semiconducting silicides and related materials to the 6th APAC-SILICIDE, which will be held as online conference in 2022.

The first “APAC-Silicide” was held in Kyoto in 2006. The proceedings containing Advanced Silicide Science and Technology of Optoelectronics, Photonics, Spintronics and Energy Research for the next Generation were published in a special issue of Thin Solid Films 515 (2007) . After this conference, APAC Silicide 2010 , and APAC Silicide 2013 were held in Tsukuba, and their proceedings were published as a special issue of Thin Solid Films 519 (2011) , and Phys. Status Solidi C 10 (2013) , respectively. Then, the international conference and summer school on advanced silicide technology (ICSS-Silicide 2014) was held in Tokyo in 2014, and teir proceedings were published as JJAP special issues Vol.54 No.7S2 (2015) and JJAP Conf. Proceedings Vol.3 (2015) . Then, the 4th APAC-Silicide 2016 and the 5th APAC-Silicide 2019 were held in Fukuoka in 2016 and in Miyazaki in 2019. Their proceedings were published as JJAP special issues Vol.56 No.5S1 (2017) and Vol.59 No.SF (2020) , and JJAP Conf. Proceedings Vol.5 (2017) and Vol.8 (2020) .

After these meetings, Silicide Green Technology, such as the applications to thermoelectric devices and solar cells has made tremendous progress as well as a further understanding of the fundamental physics of the silicides.

The aim of APAC Silicide 2022 is strongly related to those of previous international conferences on Green Technology with silicides and related materials. We think that this professional conference is timely for discussions about the most advanced results in order to stimulate an international connection between the semiconducting silicide research and the development of a sustainable semiconductor technology.

This conference will cover the following technical areas: (tentative)

1. Silicide green technology: Energy conversion devices, thermoelectrics, solar cells, batteries, ecologically friendly processes

2. Electronic and photonic applications: optoelectronics, photonics, photonic crystals, spintronics, etc.

3. Crystal growth, thin films, bulk crystals, epitaxial growth

4. Structural analyses and observations

5. Surface sciences and technology

6. Optical, electrical, electronic and magnetic properties

7. Theory, calculations and simulations