International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators
Radiation Effects in Insulators (REI) is a long-running international conference series dedicated to basic and applied scientific research relating to radiation effects in insulators and non-metallic materials. It is held every second year in locations around the world.
The REI conference has a long history.[1] Since the first conference was held in 1981, REI has been the international forum to present and discuss the latest achievements in the field of insulating materials modification through different kind of radiation (ions, electrons, neutrons...). The conference regularly attracts about 200 attendees[1]
Topics covered
The REI conference covers a wide range of topics including the following.
Atomistic and Collective Processes of Radiation Effects
- Fundamental knowledge on atomistic and electronic defect production and stability
- Irradiation-induced microstructural evolution and material modifications
- Fundamentals, theory and computer simulations
- Advances in defect and material characterization
- Radiation response of nanomaterials
- Swift heavy ion irradiations
- Neutron irradiations
- Laser-solid interactions
- Electron-solid interactions
Irradiated Materials
- Simple and complex oxides
- Carbides and nitrides
- Polymers
- Ionic crystals
- Semiconductor and scintillator materials
- Glasses and silica
- Carbon-based materials
- Nanocomposites and nanostructured materials
Applications
- Nuclear materials: fission, fusion and waste forms
- Functional nanocomposites
- Photonic, bio-medicine and sensing materials
- Micro- and nano-patterning
- Materials processing with swift heavy ions and cluster beams
Proceedings
The proceedings of REI-1 (1981) and REI-3 (1985) were published in the peer-reviewed journal Radiation Effects, renamed Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids in 1989. The proceedings of REI-1 are found in volume 64 [issues 1-4] and volume 65 [issues 1-4] of this journal. The proceedings of REI-3 are found in volume 97 [issues 3-4], volume 98 [issues 1-4], and volume 99 [issues 1-4] of this journal.
The proceedings of REI-2 (1983) and every REI conference since REI-4 (1987) have been published in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B. These REI proceedings can be found in the following volumes of this journal: REI-2 (vol. 1), REI-4 (vol. 32), REI-5 (vol. 46), REI-6 (vol. 65), REI-7 (vol. 91), REI-8 (vol. 116), REI-9 (vol.141), REI-10 (vol. 166-167), REI-11 (vol. 191), REI-12 (vol. 218), REI-13 (vol. 250), REI-14 (vol. 266), REI-15 (vol. 268), and REI-16 (vol. 286).
REI conferences held
The complete list of REI conferences held up to 2013 is as follows. The chairmen for the conferences prior to 2009 are taken from the list of proceedings editors in[1]
| Conference | Year | Location | Chairpersons | Invited speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REI-1 | 1981 | Arco, Italy | Paolo Mazzoldi, Kurt Roessler | |
| REI-2 | 1983 | Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | George W. Arnold, James A. Borders | |
| REI-3 | 1985 | Guildford, UK | Ian H. Wilson, Jeffrey Belson | |
| REI-4 | 1987 | Lyon, France | Paul Thevenard, Alain Perez | |
| REI-5 | 1989 | Hamilton, Canada | John A. Davies, David A. Thompson | |
| REI-6 | 1991 | Weimar, Germany | Gerhard Götz | |
| REI-7 | 1993 | Nagoya, Japan | Noriaki Itoh, Katsumi Tanimura | |
| REI-8 | 1995 | Catania, Italy | Gaetano Foti, Orazio Puglisi | |
| REI-9 | 1997 | Knoxville, Tennessee, USA | Carl J. McHargue, William J. Weber | |
| REI-10 | 1999 | Jena, Germany | Werner Wesch, Gerhard K. Wolf | |
| REI-11 | 2001 | Lisbon, Portugal | Eduardo Alves, Carl J. McHargue | |
| REI-12 | 2003 | Gramado, Brazil | Livio Amaral, Moni Behar, Fernando C. Zawislak | |
| REI-13 | 2005 | Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA | Kurt E. Sickafus, William J. Weber, Blas P. Uberuaga | |
| REI-14 | 2007 | Caen, France | Abdenacer Benyagoub, Lionel Thomé, Marcel Toulemonde, Patrick Trocellier | F. Aumayr, Y. Zhang, C. Stanek, K. Yasuda, R. Baragiola, A. Quaranta, J. Wrachtrup, D. Kanjilal |
| REI-15 | 2009 | Padova, Italy | Giovanni Mattei, Paolo Mazzoldi, Giancarlo Battaglin | P. Mazzoldi, M. Toulemonde, H. Bernas, R. Devanathan, M. Lang, R. Brusa, P. Kluth, F. Chen, D. K. Avasthi, N. Kishimoto, F. Garrido |
| REI-16 | 2011 | Beijing, China | Yugang Wang, Yanwen Zhang, William J. Weber | A. Lushchik, F. Djurabekova, L. Skuja, P. D. Townsend, J. Liu, S. J. Zinkle, Lumin Wang |
| REI-17 | 2013 | Helsinki, Finland | Kai Nordlund, Flyura Djurabekova, Jyrki Räisänen, Timo Sajavaara |
Jan Meijer, Ricardo Papaléo, Jose Olivares, Olli Pakarinen, Patrick Kluth, Marika Schleberger, Orazio Puglisi, Izabela Szlufarska, Yugang Wang, Jiro Matsuo, Kostya Trachenko, Aurelien Debelle, Shengqiang Zhou, Giancarlo Rizza |
| REI-18 | 2015 | Jaipur, India | Devesh K. Avasthi | - |
| REI-19 | 2017 | Versailles, France | Gael Sattonay | Jacek Jagielski, Cameron Tracy, Wolfgang Bolse, Maria Eugenia Toimil Molares, Jacques O'Connell, Ambuj Tripathi, Katharina Lorenz, Andreas Wucher, Patrick Simon, Tetsuya Yamaki, Feng Chen, Samuel Murphy, A. I. Popov, Sandrine Miro |
| REI-20 | 2019 | Astana, Kazakhstan |
References
- ^ a b c Mazzoldi, P (2010). "The long history of REI Conference: The first 30 years". Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B. 268 (19): 3248–3256. Bibcode:2010NIMPB.268.3248M. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2010.05.102.