Currently confirmed list of
Invited Speakers

Speaker	Tentative Title
Ashfold Mike, Univ. of Bristol, UK	"Pulsed Laser deposition of ZnO Films"
Auciello Orlando, Argonne Nat. Lab., USA	"Science and Technology of Ferroelectric and High-K Dielectric Thin Films for Multifunctional Devices"
Boyd Ian , Univ. College London, UK	"Development & Application of dielectric discharge Ultraviolet Excimer lamps to thin oxide Film growth and annealing"
Bright Clark , 3M Corporate Res. Proc. Lab., USA	"Fundamental Issues with TCO on Plastic Substrates"
Claes-Goran S Granqvist, Uppsala Univ, Sweden	"Electrochromics: Fundamentals and Applications of Oxide-Based Devices"
Chang R. P. H. , Northwestern Univ., USA	"Transparent Conducting Oxide Films"
Perry L. Dale , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,USA	"Synthesis, Analysis, and Spectroscopy of Lead Oxides. "
Exarhos Greg , Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab., USA	"Cation defects and conductivity in transparent oxides "
Fortunato Elvira , Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	"The (R)Evolution of Thin Film Transistors"
Hosono Hideo , Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan	"Novel Transparent Oxide Semiconductors and Device Applications."
Irvine Stuart , Univ. of Bangor, Wales, UK	"MOCVD of zinc and cadmium stannates for the next generation of PV solar cells"
Kaneko Shoji, Osaka Univ., Japan	"Spray Pyrolysis Deposition for Thin Film Formation and Its Application to the Fabrication of Transparent Conductive Oxides"
Katayama - Yoshida Hiroshi , Osaka University, Japan	"Ab initio Materials design for TCO-based new functional materials"
Kotzias Dimitris , ISPRA, Italy	"Application of photocatalytic technology for NOx removal"
Marks Tobin J., Northwestern University, USA	"Science and Technology Opportunities in Transparent Conducting Oxides"
Maury Francis , CIRIMAT, France	"Diagnostic in TCOs CVD processes by IR pyrometry"
Medvedeva Julia E. , Univ. of Missouri - Rolla, USA	"Density Functional Theory: From Conventional to Novel Transparent Conductors"
Mihailescu Ion N. , Nat. Inst. for Lasers, Romania	"Nanostructured thin oxide films for optical gas sensing "
Minami Tadatsugu Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan	"Recent Progress in Techniques for Producing Impurity-doped ZnO Thin Films Suitable for Transparent Electrode Applications"
Morante R. Joan, University of Barcelona, Spain	"Electrical characterization of single ZnO and SnO2 nanowires"
Nassiopoulou Androula, IMEL / NCSR Demokritos, Greece	"Light Emmiting devices based on silicon nanostructures."
Olsson Maryam , Umicore Materials, Liechtenstein	"Indium Tin Oxide & Alternative Transparent Conducting Oxides: Photovoltaic, Large Area Coating and Touch Panel Application"
Pemble Martyn E. , NMRC, Ireland	"Strategies for the Design and Fabrication of Improved Transparent Conducting Oxide Thin Films via the use of In-situ Growth Monitoring and the Exploitation of Photonic Band Gap Materials"
Sberveglieri Giorgio , CNR - INFM, Univ. of Brescia, Italy	"Nanowires of semiconducting metal-oxides and their gas-sensing properties"
Seal Sudipta, Univ. of Central Florida, USA	"ITO nanostructures for sensors"
Sheel David, Salford University, UK	"Atmospheric Pressure CVD for TCO Thin Films"
Szyszka Bernd , Fraunhofer-Institut fur Schicht- und Oberflachentechnik (IST), Braunschweig, GERMANY	"Transparent Conductive Oxides for Large Area Applications by In-Line Magnetron Sputtering "
Triscone Jean - Marc , Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland	"Ferroelectricity in thin perovskite films and artificial ferroelectric materials with tailored properties"
Vayssieres Lionel , Nat. Ins. for Mat. Sc., Japan	"An aqueous solution approach to advanced metal oxide arrays on substrates"
Richard van de Sanden , Eindhoven Univ. of Techn., Netherlands	"In situ growth studies during expanding thermal plasma deposition of doped and undoped ZnO"
Weimar Udo , Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany	"Gas sensors based on metal oxides: what one can learn about the surface reactions from in-situ electrical and spectroscopic techniques"
Wlodarski Wojtek , RMIT Univ. of Melbourne, Australia	"The nanomaterials based gas sensors"
Zunger Alex , NREL, USA	" Overcoming doping bottlnecks in wide gap materials : what makes a TCO a TCO ?"