The 54th Yamada Conference
on Shallow-Level Centers in Semiconductors (SLCS-9) was held in Awaji
Yumebutai International Conference Center, Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan,
from September 24 to 27, 2000. We would like to express our sincere thanks
to the Yamada Science Foundation for the support and encouragement which
enabled us to have such an active conference. Shallow-Level Centers in
Semiconductors (SLCS-9) is a part of series initiated in Berkeley (1984)
and continued in Trieste (1986), Linköping (1988), London (1990),
Kobe (1992), Berkeley (1994), Amsterdam (1996), and Montpellier (1998).
The SLCS-9 is a satellite conference of the 25th International Conference
on the Physics of Semiconductors, which was held in Osaka from September
18 to 22, 2000. The SLCS-9 covers a broad range of the topics concerned
with the fundamental properties of shallow-levels in semiconductors and
with impurity issues of importance to semiconductor technology. Conference
topics were (1) Physics and Control of Shallow-Levels in Wide-Gap semiconductors,
(2) Shallow Dopants in Semiconductors, (3) Shallow-deep Transition in
Semiconductors, (4) Tunneling, Hopping and Metal-Insulator Transition,
(5) Impurity Pairs and Complexes, (6) Hydrogen and Related Topics in
Semiconductors, (7) Impurity Related Properties of Low Dimensional System
and (8) Vibrational Properties of Shallow Impurities.
We would like to thank the members of the International Advisory Committee and
the Program Committee for their interesting and fruitful advice.
The scientific program began in the afternoon of Sunday, September 24, and ended
on Wednesday, September 27 in the afternoon. The meeting was held at Awaji Yumebutai
International Conference Center. We organized a special session on Physics and
Control of Shallow-Levels in Wide-Gap Semiconductors in September 24. This topic
is related to the valence control of the wide-gap semiconductors, such as GaN,
diamond and ZnO. On Tuesday, September 26 afternoon, there was an excursion followed
by a banquet. The conference ran for three and a half day and was organized,
as usual, with oral sessions having both invited and selected talks and poster
sessions. 111 participants came from 20 countries (domestic participants: 44
and foreign participants: 67). The conference concluded with summarizing lectures
on the final day by Prof. C.A.J. Ammerlaan.
Our thanks are also obviously due to all the participants and authors who contributed
to the success of the SLCS-9 Conference and the high scientific quality of the
Proceedings.
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