Topics

Topics to discuss:

1. Techniques to produce and purify metallurgical silicon;

2. Production of solar silicon and problems of solar power engineering;

3. Processes of growth from melt;

4. Growth and material science of bulk single crystals of silicon and related materials, e.g. Ge and SiGe;

5. Manufacturing of silicon and Si-based structures for photo voltaics;

6. Growth and material science of thin (including epitaxial) films on silicon, silicon-on-insulator, strained structures and low/high-k dielectrics;

7. Physics of silicon low-dimensional structures for solid-state electronics including nano- and optoelectronics, spintronics and photonics;

8. Nanotechnologies of silicon electronics: ion implantation, lithography, the quantum dots and  buried layers manufacturing technologies;

9. Diagnostics of silicon and silicon-based devices;

10. Novel devices comprising elements of micromechanics, optoelectronics, power electronics, light-emitting structures and photo detectors.

11. Methods and equipment for growth and of silicon and its study.

Novel devices comprising elements of micromechanics, optoelectronics, power electronics, light-emitting structures and photo detectors.