Vacuum News

Conferences and group activities 8th International Vacuum Congress 4th International Conference on Solid Surfaces 3rd European Conference on Surface Science These three conferences are to be held 22-26 September 1980 at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. Under the auspices of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Techniques and Applications (IUVSTA) and organized by Societe Francaise du Vide (French Vacuum Society), 19, rue du Renard, F 75004 Paris,

France.

Vacuum devices The Vacuum Group of The Institute of Physics and the E5 Professional Group of the Institution of Electrical Engineers are to hold a joint conference on ‘Vacuum Devices’ at the New Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge from 24-28 March 1980.

Accommodation will be available at New Hall.

The conference will embrace the electronic design and performance of devices, and also manufacturing problems with special emphasis on the vacuum environment. Such subjects as designs

for improved characteristics, novel devices, construction and processing techniques, gettering, electron emission and diagnostic and measuring techniques would come within the scope of the conference. The following devices will be discussed : CRT’s and other vacuum or gaseous display devices; Light sensitive devices : detectors, photomultipliers, image tubes; Power devices : transmitting tubes, microwave tubes including gyratrons, X-ray tubes; Lamps : filament lamps, fluorescent tubes, vapour lamps; Other devices : REED relays, gas adsorption cells, radiation detectors.

The conference will be so arranged that participants can attend the part of the conference which is of main interest to them if so desired.

The Keynote speaker will be Professor A H Beck of Cambridge University. The following invited speakers have agreed to participate : M J Smith, EMI-Varian : Power microwave devices; A W Woodhead, Philips Research Laboratories; Image tubes; J R Coaten, Thorn Lighting : Lamps; G Haas, NRL-Washington: Thermionic emission; N Nicholls, RSRE : Comparison of vacuum tubes and semiconductors ; D S Hills, Rank Electronic Tubes: New Trends in CRT’s; T A Giorgi, SAES Getters, Milan : Getters. During the conference the annual address of the Vacuum Group will be given by Mr R N Jackson of Philips Research Laboratories on ‘Television : the widening horizon’

Papers are requested on any of the above subjects but others will be considered. Synopses of papers must be submitted before 7 December 1979. Instructions on the preparation of abstracts and further information on the conference can be obtained from

The Meetings Officer, The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1 X 8QX, UK.

ESSDERC ‘80 and SSSDT ‘80 The 10th European Solid State Device Research Conference incorporating the 5th Symposium on Solid State Device Technology, will be held at the University of York from 15-l 9 September 1980. ESSDERC will run from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September and SSSDT from Tuesday (midday) 16 to Friday

(midday) 19 September. Residential accommodation will be

available from Sunday 14 September in the University Colleges. The Institute of Physics,

47 Belgrave Square, London SWIX 80X. UK.

Low Energy Ion Beams-2 LEIB-2 is being organized by the Atomic Collisions in Solids

Group of The Institute of Physics and will be held at the University of Bath, UK, from 14-l 7 April 1980. The conference is the second in a series. The first conference (LEIB-1) was held at Salford, UK, from 5-8 September 1977, and the papers are now available as a bound volume in The Institute of Physics Conference

Series No. 38 (1978). The dates for LEIB-2 have been chosen to be close to another European Conference in 1980-the 4th PSI Conference to be held at Garmisch, West Germany.

The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists in the fields of ion source development, beam transport, machines, ion

beam and plasma-induced surface interactions for systems operating between typically 1 keV and 1 MeV. Papers will be grouped under the following headings : Recent developments in ion source technology; Excitation, ionization and charge transfer; Ion optics and beam transport; High current ion sources and neutral injection ; Recent developments in heavy ion accelerators; Beam detection and measurement; Low energy ion beam systems for surface studies ; Physical and chemical effects on ion

bombarded surfaces, including deposition and etching. The Meetings Officer, The Institute of Physics,

47 Belgrave Square, London SW1 X 80X, UK,

EMAG ‘79 A conference and exhibition was be held 3-6 September 1979 at

the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

The invited speakers and topics were: Professor P R Buseck (USA) : Mineralogy; Dr E P Butler: ln situ experiments ; Dr V E Cosslett : Beam sensitive materials ; Professor

J M Cowley (USA) : STEM; Dr R F Egerton (Canada) : Electron energy loss; Professor H Hashimoto (Japan) : High resolution; Professor K Heinemann (USA) : Surface studies; Dr A P Janssen : Scanning Auger microscopy; Dr J Kirschner (Germany) : Surfaces and interfaces; Professor J B LePoole (Netherlands) : Instrumentation; Dr M H Loretto: Materials science; Drs D M

Maher and D C Joy (USA) : Electron energy loss applications; Dr J W Steeds: Image interpretation; Professor J B Van der Sande (USA) : STEM applications.

Meetings Office, The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SWlX 8QX. UK

26th National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society The site-formerly known as the Americana Hotel-offers outstanding facilities to meet our expanded program requirements this year : Sheraton Centre, New York City. Further information about the technical program, exhibits, technology courses and

local arrangements can be obtained by contacting the following : T. M. Messina, Chairman (local arrangements), Varian Associates Inc, IEG, 25 Commerce Drive, Cranford, NJ 07016, (201) 276-7534.

E Greely (Exhibit space), American Institute of Physics, 335 East 45th Street, New York City, NY 10017, (212) 661-9404.

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Miss N Hammond, AVS Secretary (Registration),

c/o American Institute of Physics.

Miss V Harwood, Coordinator (Short course),

c/o American Institute of Physics.

R W Berg, Chairman (Technical program),

Thermophysical Properties Div-582, Sandia Laboratories,

Alberquerque, NM 87115, (505) 264-l 668.

1979 officers and directors of the American Vacuum Society The American Vacuum Society announces the election of the following officers and directors for 1979 : Charles B Duke (Xerox Webster Research Centre, Webster, NY) : President; John L Vossen, Jr (RCA Laboratories, Princetown, NJ) : President-Elect; Jack H Singleton (Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburg, PA) : Secretary; J Roger Young (General Electric R Et D Centre, Schenectady, NY) : Treasurer; J Peter Hobson (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada) : Director

(‘79-‘80) ; Donald M. Mattox (Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) : Director (‘79-‘80) ; Theodore E Madey (National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC) : Director (‘78-‘79) ; Clifford J

Mosbacher (Industrial Research/Development, Barrington, Ill) : Director (‘78-‘79) ; William E Spicer (Stanford University, Stanford, Calif) : Director (‘79-‘80) ; William D Westwood (Bell-Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa, Canada) : Director (‘78-‘79) ;

Newly elected Trustees for the Scholarships and Awards Committee for 1979-81 include : Susan D Allen (Centre for Laser

Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA) John R Arther, Jr (Physical Electronics Industries, Eden Prairie,

Minnesota) ; The Immediate Past President is: Leonard C Beavis (Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; The Executive Secretary is: Nancy L Hammond (American Vacuum Society, New York, NY).

American Vacuum Society

1978-I 979 AVS scholars The Scholarship and Awards Committee of the American Vacuum

Society has selected eleven graduate students to receive AVS scholarships for the academic year 1978-I 979. Awards of $1000 each go to Chi-Ming Chan (AVS scholar 1977-I 978) of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California ; Robert J Culbertson, Jr, of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Charles M Doland of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas; Raymond Gorte of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Susan R McKay of the University of Maine, Orona, Maine; Paul Parries of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Frederick E Pinkerton of Cornell

University, Ithaca, New York; Eric T Prince (AVS scholar 1977-78) of the Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York; Carey Schwartz of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania ; Thomas H Upton of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California ; and Owen Wu of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

American Vacuum Society

Holweck Medal and Prize The Council of The Institute of Physics announces the award of the 1979 Holweck Medal and Prize to Professor A Blandin of the Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, for his outstanding contributions to the theory of metals.

Max Born Medal and Prize The Institute of Physics, London, and the German Physical Society announce the award of the 1979 Max Born Medal and Prize to Dr J B Taylor of the Culham Laboratory, UKAEA, for his work on the theory of plasmas particularly in relation to controlled

nuclear fusion. The presentation took place in September 1979 during the annual meeting of the German Physical Society in Ulm.

The institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1 X 8QX, UK

National Symposium on Science Et Technology of Vacuum-surfaces-Thin Films The symposium is organised by Indian Vacuum Society Et Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 21-24 December 1979. A national

exhibition of modern vacuum and related equipment will also be held along with the Symposium on the IIT campus.

Dr T C Goel, Convenor National Vacuum Symposium, Department of Physics,

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110029, India.

1980 IEEE International symposium on Circuits and Systems lSCAS/80 will be held at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA, 28-30 April 1980. Workshops will be conducted by

the various technical committees of the Circuits and Systems Society immediately preceding the symposium on 27 April. The symposium sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society will be the 13th annual international conference devoted to all aspects of the theory, design and application of circuits and systems. The technical program through its planned special sessions and colloquia will focus on microelectronics-physics to

applications. The symposium will also host a special colloquium on

Large Data Systems in Oil and Gas Exploration. Professor Glenn M Glasford,

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Link Hall,

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

1980 Applied Superconductivity Conference The 1980 Applied Superconductivity Conference will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 29 September to 2 October 1980. The meeting will include both oral and poster presentations devoted to : Superconducting materials and composite conductors; Electrical rotating machinery; Power transmission; Magnet technology

(magnets for CTR, MHD, energy storage, etc) ; Accelerator and high energy physics devices; Microwatt applications (Josephson junctions, etc) ; other topics. Participation in the Conference from abroad will continue to be strongly encouraged, with invited speakers from overseas reviewing major projects. An announcement for authors wishing to submit manuscripts will be made by December 1979. The proceedings of the Conference will again be

published as an issue of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. An Industrial Exhibit is planned for this meeting. Potential exhibitors should contact the Exhibits Chairman.

William E Keller, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,

PO Box 1663, MS 764, Los Alamos, NM 87545,USA

Strong international sales thrust at EUROCHEM 80 The event is being staged at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, from 23-27 June 1980. And already-only 3 months after releasing exhibitor details-producers Clapp 8 Poliak Europe Ltd report that space allocations exceed the 1977 total.

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