Topics

The range of topics selected to be included in the present symposium are listed below. They are not exclusive and have been proposed in order to be as broad as possible so as to provide a platform for a large number of contributions, maximizing the impact of this 1st multi-disciplinary focused symposium on Transparent Conductive Oxides

• Fundamentals
  • TCOs and their structure
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Carrier dynamics
  • Electrical, mechanical and optical properties
  • Piezoelectric, magnetic and ferroelectic TCOs
• Fabrication, Processing, Characterization
• Physical techniques (PLD, sputtering, etc)
• Chemical techniques (CVD, PE-CVD, MOCVD, ACG, Spray pyrolysis, spin coating etc.)
• Direct writing and pattering
• New tools and equipment
• Applications
  • TCO sensors (environmental / food / medical)
  • TCO transparent electrodes and device fabrication
  • TCO photovoltaic devices
  • Protective and active coatings using TCOs
  • Wavelength-selective devices based on TCOs