Scope

After the successful move to the centre of Hasselt in 2008, the 2010 15^th anniversary edition of the Hasselt Diamond Workshop will undergo a new change. To accommodate more time for discussion, networking and poster viewing, for the first time the meeting will be extended to cover a full three days. While maintaining a similar number of oral presentations, extended coffee breaks and poster sessions will give you sufficient time to discuss new collaborations and joined projects with your colleagues at SBDD XV.

Making use of the excellent facilities of the cultuurcentrum Hasselt, SBDD XV will be traditionally focused on CVD diamond and advanced carbon materials. The meeting is addressing a wide variety of topics ranging from fundamental material science including growth, defects, electrical transport and optical properties, to related relevant applications in electronics, optoelectronics, electrochemistry, nano-bioelectronics and quantum computing.

The meeting will start on Monday morning, February 22, 2010, and will end Wednesday evening, February 24, 2010. In these three full days, several invited talks will be given, covering different topics.

Topics

• Diamond growth and doping

• Properties of nanodiamond particles and films

• Physics and chemistry of diamond surfaces

• Colour centres in diamond and its quantum applications

• Electrical transport

• Theory of defects and surfaces

• Bionsensing and electrochemical devices

• Particle detectors and electronic diamond-based devices

• Novel carbon materials, carbon nanotubes, and related materials