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Topic H:
Nano- and Microtechnology
Coordinator:
J. Haußelt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (D)
Symposium H1:
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
(NT) is recognised as an emerigng technology of the 21st
century. The new experimental and simulation tools
available, and the discovery of novel phenomena and
processes at the "nano"-scale, have openend remarkable
oppertunities for developments in nanoparticles,
nanostructured materials and nanodevices. Nanoparticles,
including nanoclusters, -layers, -tubes, two and
three-dimensional structures in the size range between
molecular dimensions and 100 nm are seen as tailored
precursors for building up functional nanostructures. The
precursors' properties may be controlled during generation
and differ significantly from the corresponding bulk
materials. Engineered nanostructures include nanostructured
materials such as ceramics, optical materials, polymers and
metals, nanocomponents such as coatings and connectors and
nanodevices such as sensors, switches and reactors.
Applications include the pharmaceutical and chemical
industries, nanoelectrics and space exploration, metallurgy
and biotechnoogy, cosmetics and the food industry, optics
and nanomedicine, metrology and measurement, and
ultraprecision engineering -there are practically no
unaffected application fields.
Chairman: H.
Gleiter, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (D)
Co-Chairman: C. Politis, University of Patras
(GR)
Symposium H2: Sensors and
Actuators
Product and system
innovations are frequently generated by a new combination of
different techniques. The most effective "combiners" of
different technical areas are the sensors and actuators,
thus constituting a powerful driving force for our actual
technical progress. Sensors transfer a big number of ambient
parameters to the electrical world: temperature, heat, IR-
and visible electromagnetic radiation, chemical content of
gases and fluids, mechanical displacement and forces and
many others. Actuators on the other hand are mostly
transforming electrical energy to well controlled mechanical
work, i.e. they enable a combination of microelectronics and
micromechanics. All of these interface devices are real hard
ware components and rely on functional materials and on
advanced processing for fabricating them. Hence, the
symposium will present new topics of the broad field of
sensor/ actuator related materials, processing, and
devices.
Chairman: K.
Kempter, Siemens, München (D)
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