• Submission of intent to present paper: ASAP
  
  
• Submission of abstract: 28 February 1998
  
  
• Late Registration:15 May 1998
  
  
• Submission of full text: 27 July 1998
  

• Plasma surface interactions: David McKenzie
  
  
• Inductively coupled plasmas: Ieuan Jones
  
  
• Thermal plasmas and plasma spraying : John Lowke
  
  
• Corona discharges and environmental issues : Dick Morrow
  
  
• Plasma diagnostics: Gerry Woolsey
  
  
• Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation : George Collins
  
  
• Gas Phase Collisions: Stephen Buckman
  
  
• Theory of discharges: Robert Robson
  
  
• Plasma modelling and simulation: Rod Boswell
  
  
• Pulsed plasmas: Rod Boswell
  
  
• Plasma Synthesis :
  
  
• Plasma generation :

The Symposium on Plasma Science for Materials is an annual symposium held in Japan since 1988. The national meeting of the 11th SPSM will be held in conjunction with this year's APCPST. All participants can attend this symposium without additional fee.

The official language of the conference is english.

The Japenese Society for the Promotion of Science is the main sponsor.
Other sponsors are:

• Australian Scientific Instruments - student prize of $500.00
  
  
• Balzers Process Systems, Liechtenstein, Switzerland.
  
  

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Conference Venue and Accomodation

The cost of the hotel is about $A160 a night and participants wishing to arrive earlier or stay for a few more days can profit from this special rate. The rooms are huge with two large queen size beds so two can share. Please make your booking directly with the hotel as it is not possible for the conference committee to organize accomodation.

4 Holiday Inn, Coogee Beach
242 Arden Street, Coogee, Sydney, NSW Australia
207 Rooms with air conditioning, tv, direct dial telephone, ensuite bathroom, room service, dry cleaning, pool, gym, tennis courts
Tel. +61 2 9315 7600 Fax+61 2 9315 9100 Telex Z20723
Single room $150 - $185 AUS per room per night
Double room $160 - $195 AUS per room per night

For those who don't want to stay at the Holiday Inn there are a variety of other hotels located close to the conference venue - a short list follows. Otherwise participants should make arrangements with their local travel agent if they prefer to stay elsewhere in Sydney.

3 1/2 Coogee Sands Moter Inn
161 Dolphin St, Coogee, NSW
Tel +61 2 9665 8588
50 rooms with air conditioning, direct dial telephone, tv, ensuite bathroom, mini-bar, tea & coffee making, dry cleaning, pool
Single/Double from $A80 / night

3 Corban International
183 Coogee Rd, Coogee, NSW
Tel +61 2 9665 2244
38 rooms with air conditioning, direct dial telephone, tv, ensuite bathroom, mini-bar, tea & coffee making, dry cleaning, pool
Single from $A80 / night
Double from $85 /night

2 1/2 Coogee Bay Hotel
Crnr Coogee Bay Rd and Arden St
Tel +61 2 9665 0000 Fax +61 2 96642103
42 rooms with air conditioning, direct dial telephone, tv, ensuite bathroom, mini-bar, tea & coffee making
Voted Hotel of the Year 1995
N.B. Pub-style accommodation (some noise on Friday & Saturday night)
Single from $A70 / night
Twin/double from $A80 / night

Coogee View
56 Carr Street, Coogee, Sydney, NSW
Tel. +61 2 9315 8388
Beachfront serviced apartments
1BR unit $910 per week
2BR units from $810 - $1050 per week
3BR units from $1050 - 1300 per week

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Registration and Fees

General Registration: $US200
Students: $US150
Late Registration (after 15th May): $US250

An official invitation letter can be sent by the Local Organising Committee on request. However, this invitation does not include the payment of any Conference expenses, such as registration, travel and hotel accommodation.

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Contributed Papers

All of the accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. One free copy of the proceedings will be available to all participants at the registration desk.

The deadline for receipt of Abstracts is February 28, 1998

Participants may submit their papers to the journal "Thin Solid Films". Those who wish to do so should read the following instructions.

1. Papers MUST be in complete and finalised form and in every respect be of the scientific standards usually accepted for international journals. Some advice on format is given below; authors should consult a recent copy of "Thin Solid Films" for further guidance.
   
2. Only a paper which is actually presented during the symposium by one of its authors can be considered for the journal.
   
3. Papers have to be submitted by 12 pm on the first day of the conference (27th July). An arrangement has been made with this journal as for the 10th SPSM in Japan, 1997.
   
4. The Guest Editor (Prof. Yoshida, University of Tokyo) will distribute the papers to the referees AT the conference. All correspondance of a scientific nature should be addressed to the Guest Editor.
   
5. The refereeing process will take until about September.
   
6. The Editor will send the all the accepted papers to Prof. Joe Greene, Editor-in-Chief, Thin Solid Films.
   
7. The special issue of Thin Solid Films will be published in May, 1999.

Authors Instrutions

• Length should not exceed 3500 words, including figures and tables. Count a figure or half-page table as 150 words and a full-page table as 300 words.
• The paper should be preferably double-spaced.
• An abstract should be included.
• Figures should be orginal drawings, or high-quality black and white photographs. Figure captions must collected on a separate sheet at the end of the manuscript.
• Tables should be presented on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript, together with their captions.
• References in the text should be numbered consecutively within square brackets and listed together at the end of the text, for example:
  [1] S. De Unamuno and E. Forarassy, Appl. Surf. Sci., 69 (1993) 1.
• You are requested to deliver your manuscript in electronic form (i.e., on floppy disk), accompanied by 3 printed copies (including figures), which should be identical to the electronic version, both in content and layout.
• For the preparation of your word-processed text please contact the publishers, Elsevier: Dr. Egbert van Wezenbeek, email: e.wezenbeek@elsevier.nl
• The floppy disk, together with hard copies should be submitted to the symposium desk by 12:00 July 27.

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Notes to Presenters

Invited talks: Each invited speaker will have a total of 30 minutes for their presentation. Presenters may wish to allocate a few minutes of this time at the end of the presentation for any questions or discussion that should arise.

Oral presentations: Each presenter will have 20 minutes for their presentation, including questions and discussion. We suggest that your presentation be 15 minutes in length and that you leave the remaining few minutes for questions and/or discussion.

Poster presentations: Poster dimensions are 120 cm (width) x 90 cm (height). Posters will be displayed for the entire duration of the conference, so that all conference participants will have to opportunity to view the posters. Poster presentation times will be between 1:00 and 2:00 pm, although additional viewing times will also be allocated. We request that at these times at least one of the poster authors is present.

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Social Events

The Conference Banquet ($US50) will be held on Tuesday, 28 July in the Holiday Inn. A four hour beverage service will be provided in the cost of the banquet.

For accompanying people there are many things to do around Sydney. The Australian Tourism net has web pages on the Sydney Region with useful information on transport, attractions and coming events. There is also information about car hire and accomodation.

A complimentary shuttle bus runs regularly between the conference venue/Sydney airport/city. Please consult the shuttle bus schedule for arrival and departure times.

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Further Information

Send all Scientific Conference Correspondence to: Dr. R.W. Boswell

Send all Other Conference Correspondence to:
Ms Kate Mason
Plasma Research Lab, RSPhysSE
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200 Australia
Phone: +61 2 6249 2463 Fax: +61 2 6249 2575
e-mail: sp3@rsphysse.anu.edu.au

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Local Organising Committee

Overseas Organising Committee

Address List of Committee

Professor D.R. McKenzie
(Head) Department of Applied Physics
School of Physics
University of Sydney, Australia
Fax +61 2 9351 3577
Email: mckenzie@physics.usyd.edu.au

Dr George Collins
Principal Research Scientist
Materials Division
Australian Nucelar Science and Technology Organisation
Private Mail Bag 1
Menai NSW 2234 AUSTRALIA
Ph: +61 2 9717 3400
Fax: +61 2 9543 7179
Email: george.collins@ansto.gov.au

Dr. R. Morrow
Senior Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics
PO Box 218
Lindfield, NSW 2070, Australia
Phone: + 61 (0)2 9413 7703
Fax: + 61 (0)2 9413 7204
E-mail: dickm@dap.csiro.au

Dr John J Lowke
Chief Research Scientist
CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics
PO Box 218
Lindfield, NSW 2070, Australia
Email: Either lowke@dap.csiro.au Or john.lowke@tip.csiro.au

Stephen J. Buckman
Electron Physics Group
Research School of Physical Sciences
The Australian National University
ACT 0200, Australia
Phone: 61 2 6249 2402
FAX: 61 2 6249 2452
Email: Stephen.Buckman@anu.edu.au
Further information on the Electron Physics Group see the AMPL webb page

Associate Prof. Gerry Woolsey
University of New England
Armidale NSW, Australia Tel: +61 267 73 3450
Fax: +61 267 73 3413
Email address: gwoolsey@metz.une.edu.au

Dr. R.E. Robson,
Reader in Physics,
James Cook University,
P.O. Box 6811,
Cairns 4870, Australia
Tel. +61 70 421208 Fax. +61 70 421284
E-mail: phrer@jcu.edu.au

Prof. I.R. Jones,
Dept of Physics,
Flinders University,
G.P.O. Box 2100,
Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
E-mail: phirj@cc.flinders.edu.au

Overseas Organising Committee

Professor Cheng-kang Wu,
Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China,
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Email: ckw@cc5.imech.ac.cn or nancy@sun.ihep.ac.cn

Prof. Hong-Young Chang
Professor of Physics Department at KAIST
Email: hychang@convex.kaist.ac.kr

Prof. Hiroshi Fujiyama
Dept. of EECS, Faculty of Engineering
Nagasaki University
1-14 Bunkyo, Nagasaki 852, JAPAN
Tel&Fax(Day&Night) : +81-958-47-6437
Email : hiroshi@ec.nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Prof. Hideomi Koinuma
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tel & Fax: +81-45-924-5314
Email: koinuma1@rlem.titech.ac.jp

Prof. Kunihide Tachibana
Kyoto University
Tel: +81-3-75-753-5304
Email: tatibana@knee.kyoto-u. ac.jp

Dr. Makoto Sekine
Toshiba Corporation
Tel: 81-44-549-2187 Fax: 81-44-520-1803
Email: mak@ull.rdc.toshiba.co.jp

Prof. Takayuki Watanabe
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tel: +81-3-5734-2112 Fax: +81-3-5734-2110
Email: watanabe@o.cc.titech.ac.jp

Prof. S. Ahn
Institute for Advanced Engineering and Ajou University,
Korea
Tel: (0335) 30-7036 (O) Fax 30-7118
Email: sahn@iae.re.kr

Prof. W. Whang
School of Electrical Engineering,
Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea.

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