IVC-22 Satellite Short Courses

Sapporo Convention Center, Japan
10th, 11th, and 16th September 2022

A number of highly renowned scientists will give advanced short courses in conjunction with IVC-22 in Sapporo, Japan. A series of the courses covers a wide range of topics in vacuum, plasma, thin film, and surface science, and is suitable for PhD students, research engineers, scientists, and R&D staff at companies who like to expand their horizons in new scientific fields and in new scientific methods.
Discounted course fees are applied to IVC-22 participants and students.

The registration for the short courses will open in May.

2-day course:

Saturday, 10 Sept. – Sunday, 11 Sept.

• Vacuum Gas Dynamics: Theory, Experiments and Applications
  
  Felix Sharipov (Federal University of Parana)
  Irina Graur (Aix-Marseille University)
  Oleg B. Malyshev (Daresbury Laboratory)
  Roberto Kersevan (CERN)

• X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS/ESCA)
  
  John T. Grant (Consultant in Surface Analysis)

1-day course:

Sunday, 11 Sept.

• Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition
  
  Diederik Depla (Ghent University)

• Scanning Probe Microscopy
  
  Franz Giessibl (University of Regensburg)

Half-day course:

Sunday, 11 Sept.

• Introduction to High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS)
  
  Daniel Lundin (Linköping University)

Friday, 16 Sept.

• Properties of Small Molecules: Bridging Surface Science and Vacuum Technology
  
  Katsuyuki Fukutani (University of Tokyo)

• Plasma Processing; From Fundamentals to Atomic Layer Processes
  
  Satoshi Hamaguchi (Osaka University)
• Fundamentals of Sputter Deposition; Control of Micro- and Nanostructure
  
  Ivan Petrov (University of Illinois)