Call for Papers

9th International Symposium

Magnetic Materials, Processes and Devices

to be held October 29 – November 3, 2006
as part of the
210th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Cancun, Mexico

Magnetic thin films play important roles in data recording systems, sensors, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and other devices.  New knowledge continues to be acquired in magnetic film processing including: film nucleation and growth, structure of deposits, stress and micromagnetics of films, thermal and magnetic annealing, electrochemical and electroless plating systems, etching, process chemistry, tool design, process control, etc.  Our understanding of the correlations between deposition parameters, film composition, structure, properties and device performance also continues to improve.

The purpose of the symposium is to bring together electrochemists, physicists, engineers, and device designers who are working in the area of magnetic thin-film technology to review the present state of the field and to point out fruitful new areas for research. Materials of interest include Fe, Ni, Co, and their alloys, as well as laterally patterned, laminated or compositionally modulated structures, including nanowires and self-organized films

The symposium will further cover subjects specific to the fabrication of thin-film heads, microelectromechanical systems, micromotors, and other magnetic devices. The symposium will include invited review or tutorial papers and contributed papers.

Papers presented at the Symposium will be published in the ECS Transactions (ECST) immediately following the meeting.  Further information on this newest publication of the Electrochemical Society can be found at http://www.electrochem.org/dl/ecst/ . 

Acceptance of a paper in this symposium (oral or poster) obligates the authors to submit an electronic camera-ready copy of the full manuscript to ECS Transactions. Instructions for preparing the manuscript will be sent by the symposium organizers to each author after the notice of acceptance is distributed by the ECS Headquarters office. Abstracts, suggestions and inquiries should be sent electronically to ECS Headquarters and to the symposium organizers. Abstracts must be received at ECS Headquarters by May 26, 2006.

For instructions on abstracts and to submit electronically go to

http://ecsmeet2.peerx-press.org/cgi-bin/main.plex  

Symposium organizers:

C. Bonhôte, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA, tel: 408.323.7214, fax: 408.323.7010, e-mail: Christian.Bonhote@hgst.com;
S.R. Brankovic, University of Houston, Dep.Com. & Electrical Engineering and Nanosystem Manufacturing Center, 1251 Waterfront Place, N 308 Eng. Bldg. 1, Houston TX, 77204-4005, USA, tel: 713-743-4409, fax: 713-743-4444, email: Stanko.Brankovic@mail.uh.edu;
H.H. Gatzen, Institut fuer Mikrotechnologie, University of Hannover, Schoenebecker Allee 2, 30823 Garbsen, Germany, tel: +49-511/762-5103, fax: +49-511/762-2867, e-mail: gatzen@imt.uni-hannover.de;
Y. Kitamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan, tel: +81-45-924-5424, fax: +81-45-924-5433, e-mail: kitamoto@iem.titech.ac.jp;
T. Osaka, Waseda University, Department of Applied Chemistry, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan, tel: + 81-3-5286-3202, e-mail: osakatet@waseda.jp;
W. Schwarzacher, University of Bristol, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK, tel: +44 117.928.8709, fax: +44 117.925.5624, email: w.schwarzacher@bristol.ac.uk;
G. Zangari, University of Virginia, Materials Science and Engineering and CESE, PO Box 400745, 116 Engineers Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA, tel: 434.243.5474, fax: 434.982.5799, email: gz3e@virginia.edu