Thin films

Chairman: Dra. Sandra Rodil (IIM-UNAM)

The purpose of this symposium is to provide an international forum for discussion and exchange of ideas on the up-to-date research and development of advanced thin film processes and characterization. The participants from various universities, industries and research laboratories are welcome to submit papers for both oral and posters presentations to discuss recent advances, developments, field applications, and future challenges for the thin film technologies. The topics include, but are not limited to, every kind of thin films used in:

• Energy applications: solar cells, photochemistry, hydrogen production and storage, fuel cells,
• Protection applications: including mechanical and chemical protection.
• Memory applications: Ferroelectric and piezoelectric thin films, shape memory alloy thin film, magnetic shape memory thin films, shape memory polymer films
• Optoelectronic, optical, and electronic devices
• Sensors and actuators applications
• Biomedical applications

The physical properties of thin films are critically dependent on the deposition conditions and post-treatment details and discussions’ concerning the correlations between the experimental conditions and film properties is one of the major questions.