New amorphous and crystalline metal oxide materials with complex composition as well as wide band-gap nonoxide materials including e.g. nanotube networks and quantum dot structures are extending device designer’s palette of transparent conductors and semiconductors by addressing a variety of cutting edge applications in flexible electronics, new active optoelectronics, even spin photonics. Advances in materials and processing are also extending the range of the more experienced use of transparent conducting oxides in large area flat-panel displays, thin-film solar cells, antistatic coatings, functional and smart glasses and a number of other applications.

However, primary requirements for a continued and expanded application of TCOs and related transparent conducting materials including organic and nanotube based TCs is a clearer understanding of basic materials science such as the electronic structure, carriers origin, mobility and scattering, and doping mechanisms which govern conductivity and transparency, coupled with a better insight into interfacial and chemical compatibility issues and the development of models of the performance limits of materials and devices.

Objective of the International Symposium “Recent Developments in the Research and Application of Transparent Conducting and Semiconducting Oxides” which follows the discussions on the same subject held at a previous CIMTEC conference (2002, Florence), is to gather specialists from academia and industry to highlight updated developments in the area from fundamental science to materials synthesis, processing techniques device development and advanced/novel/prospective applications.

Contributions may be proposed in the following or related topics:

FI-1 Fundamentals

FI-2 Material design and device development

FI-3 Applications

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