Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces - ICSFS 13

G. ZAMPIERI; E.A. SÁNCHEZ; M. GURAYA; M.C. ASENSIO; H. ASCOLANI

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Año: 2007 p. 108

Prólogo del Applied Surface Science, vol. 254, nro.1  This special issue of Applied Surface Science contains articles of presentations made at the 13th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces (ICSFS13) held in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, from 6th to 10th November, 2006. This series of conferences began in Tokyo (1978) and was held most recently in Princeton (2000), Marseille (2002), and Hamamatsu (2004); this 13th edition was the first conference organized in a Latin-American country. The host institution was the Centro Atómico Bariloche of the Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA). It was attended by 264 delegates from 31 countries that presented over 350 contributions in a variety of fields ranging from fundamental properties of thin films and surfaces to the growth of nanostructures, functionalization of surfaces, spintronics, and biomaterials. This special issue contains 7 invited review articles and 87 contributions. The ICSFS13 was sponsored by Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnolo´gica (ANPCyT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Centro Latinoamericano de Física (CLAF), Fundación Jose´ A. Balseiro, INVAP S.E, and VG Scienta, to whom we express our deepest appreciation. We are also very grateful to the organizations that participated in ICSFS-13 as exhibitors: SPECS, OMICRON, Innovative Plasma Systems Gmbh, and CABURN. We are indebted to many people who contributed to theConference organization in various ways. First, we wish to acknowledge the encouragement and support of several members of the International Steering and Advisory Committees of the ICSFS. Special thanks are also due to the members of the Executive Committee of ICSFS13 as well as to the many other people who helped us in different stages of the organization; particularly M.D. Sánchez, L.N. Serkovic, L.M. Rodríguez, and F.P. Cometto.