3rd ICTP/IUVSTA School on

THIN FILM PHYSICS and TECHNOLOGY

8 - 26 March 1999

including

TOPICAL CONFERENCE on

MICROSTRUCTURE and SURFACE MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION in THIN FILMS

24 - 26 March 1999

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Strada Costiera 11, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy

Phone: +39 040 2240111 - Fax: +39 040 224163

http://www.ictp.trieste.it

Directors

Professor Peter B. BARNA (RITP-MS of HAS, Budapest, Hungary)

Professor M. SANCROTTI (Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM, Trieste, Italy)

LECTURES

STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERFACES WITH X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON DIFFRACTION - T. GREBER

ORGANIC THIN FILMS FOR ELECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS - C. TALIANI

MAGNETOMETRY OF MAGNETIC SURFACES, INTERFACES AND ULTRATHIN FILMS - G. ROSSI

GROWTH OF NANOCRYSTALLINE CARBON FILMS BY CLUSTER DEPOSITION: REAL AND COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS - L. COLOMBO

EFFECT OF ION BOMBARDMENT ON THE EVOLUTION OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY - U. VALBUSA

THIN FILM GROWTH BY THE SUPERSONIC SEEDED BEAMS - S. IANNOTTA

PATTERNING OF SURFACES DURING HOMOEPITAXIAL GROWTH AND EROSION - B. POELSEMA

MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN TRANSITION METAL NITRIDES - J. GREENE

THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF NUCLEATION AND THE EARLY STAGES OF FILM GROWTH - J. GREENE

H-MEDIATION, SURFACE SEGREGATION, ULTRA-HIGH DOPING AND THEIR EFFECTS ON Si1-xGeX GROWTH KINETICS - J. GREENE

ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPIES APPLIED TO THIN FILM ANALYSIS - M. SANCROTTI

DIAGNOSTICS AND APPLICATIONS OF THIN FILMS - FORMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF - P. BARNA

CARBON NITRIDE THIN FILMS - GROWTH AND PROPERTIES - N. HELLGREN

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION AND ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY OF - M. YACAMAN

X-RAY TECHNIQUES FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF THIN FILMS AND LAYERED STRUCTURES - V. VALVODA

SOLAR SELECTIVE COATINGS - K. CHOPRA

SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS OF THIN FILMS - K. CHOPRA

WEAR-RESISTANT AND LOW FRICTION COATINGS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS - Y. PAULEAU