Updated: February
2004
In this section of the GaN-Net
Website we plan to provide more than just a chronological
listing of forthcoming conferences relating to GaN. This would
in itself be helpful in so far as there are few up to date
listings of this kind exclusively dedicated to this
semiconductor.
To make this website more useful we plan
to include some of the background of the key conferences. We
will also provide some history of each meeting. Not
surprisingly it was not until the early 1990s that the first
conferences dedicated to GaN came into the calendar. Before
then GaN was not the most important of topics and only rarely
were there papers or presentations on it. Interest in short
wavelength emitters, for example, was ongoing and had reached
a level of interest higher than at any previous time. However,
this had arisen in a different field, that of the II-VIs as a
result of the pioenering work of Sony, 3M, Philips and others.
Today much of that work has faded and the companies switched
work to other projects.
I think that the very first GaN
conference must have been in 1992. It was about this time that
Nakamura san's first LED work had been published and the
organisers got together to give the work its due. By then
there were enough people working on it to fill a meaningful
conference. That is not to say that there was nothing going on
before then of course. Nakamura will be the first to reaffirm
his acknowledgements to fellow Japanese workers and the likes
of Pankove et al. Nitrides
were being covered in the general conferences such as the MRS
and the SiC meetings pre-dated those focussed on GaN. Soon
after the Nichia success the number of conferences, shows,
workshops etc., on the nitrides blossomed. By 2001 it had,
however, settled down again. However, today there are quite a
few business-related meetings which goes to show the
commercial maturity of nitride devices - for lighting
applications, for example - but the big findings are always
discussed first at the society meetings just as they
predominantly appear in the principal journals.
For now we include brief linked
information on conferences coming up which have significant
nitride -related content. Click on the conference name to be
taken to the website.
The Fifth
International Conference on Nitride
Semiconductors
Paper abstract deadline is January 10th, 2003,
meeting will be held in Nara, Japan in May.
Photonics
West - the world's largest opto show where there will no
doubt be some nitride-related companies, papers
and announcements begins at the end of January.
Strategies
in Light will be held February 5-7 in San
Mateo.
Of peripheral interest but worth a look becasue of
its choice location will be the Workshop on Thin
Films to be held in February in Tehran. Topics include
diamond films, SiC nanotech .
International
Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)
MRS
Fall Meeting
Strategies in Light
2003
MRS Spring
Meeting
5th International
Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-5)
International Conference on
Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM
2003)
We would be very happy to include details
of your meeting here - please email the URL to Roy
Szweda.
There are some reports of previous
nitride meetings to be found on the web. We shall be including
as many as we can here and to kick things off here is a report
from the Microscopy
of Semiconducting Materials, MSM XII, by Maria Lada of the
University of Sheffield on the UK Nitrides Consortium webpage.
There are other reports filed here including one on the Spring
2001 E-MRS meeting by Tom Foxon of the University of
Nottingham.
Conversely, a Summary of the
Fourth European GaN Workshop EGW-4 in Nottingham, England,
2-5 July 2000 can be found on the the MRS Internet Journal of
Nitride Semiconductor Research site. If you click here you
can view an abundance of conference reports and much more
besides. | 
