Topics
ICDIM 2024
Scientific topics
All topics related to point and extended defects in bulk materials, thin films, and nanostructures. Technological applications will be presented alongside fundamental measurements and theories. The main scientific areas include:
  • Fundamentals, theory, defect modeling and computational methods
  • Point and extended defects in wide band-gap systems
  • Defects at surfaces and interfaces
  • Thin films and low-dimensional systems
  • Nanocrystals, colloids and aggregates
  • Defects and material preparation technology
  • Defects modeling and computational methods
  • Radiation effects, radiation-induced defects, color centers
  • Luminescence spectroscopy of excitons, impurities, and defects, including using synchrotron radiation
  • Defect characterization at large-scale research facilities
  • Electronic excitations, excited state dynamics, radiative and non-radiative relaxations
  • Scintillation, energy transfer, and storage, carrier trapping phenomena
  • Laser active centers
  • Defect-related non-linear optical phenomena
  • Defect-related swift-heavy ion irradiation processes
  • Phonons and defects, electron-phonon interactions
  • Defect diffusion, ionic relaxations, ionic transport
  • Technological applications, including:
    • Radiological and radiometric imaging and detection (scintillators and dosimeters)
    • Optical devices and photonics, photorefractive electro-optics, optical fibers, lasers
    • Materials for optoelectronics, photonics and micro-electronics
    • Solid electrolytes, fuel cells, electrochemical sensors, fast ionic conductors
    • Nuclear materials