These Proceedings contain
papers submitted at the Yamada Conference LVII “Atomic-scale surface
designing for functional low-dimensional materials” held at National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba,
Japan, from November 14 to 16 in 2001. The conference was attended by
145 participants from more than 10 countries.
Recent progress in surface science has brought us a deep understanding of the
structure and properties of clean and adsorbate covered surfaces. In the 21st
century, the atomic-scale design of solid surfaces will be carried out in order
to achieve specific new functions of various kinds, using accumulated knowledge
of surface science as a basis. In the first year of the 21st century, an international
conference dealing with such subjects was held. The LVII Yamada Conference was
organized to exchange ideas between two fields, i.e., surface design and surface
properties/functions, to introduce these two fields to one another, and to try
to solve various problems in future nanometer-scale devices. Thus, the conference
included rather broad fields from chemistry to physics and from fundamentals
to applications.
It is our great pleasure to express many thanks to the Yamada Science Foundation
for the financial support that made the conference possible and fruitful. Also
we appreciate those whose efforts made this conference successful.
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