INVITED LECTURES
6th Forum on New Materials

Nicolas ALONSO-VANTE, University of Poitiers, France
Perla B. BALBUENA, Texas A&M University, USA
Angelo BONGIORNO, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Andrea CASALEGNO, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michel CASSIR, Chimie ParisTech, France
Isotta CERRI, Toyota Europe, Belgium
Niels CHRISTIANSEN, Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S, Denmark
Olaf CONRAD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bert DE COLVENAER, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, Belgium
Maria Luisa DI VONA, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Andreas FRIEDRICH, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Hubert GASTEIGER, Technical University of Muenchen, Germany
Peter HOLTAPPELS, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Teruhisa HORITA, AIST, Japan
John T.S. IRVINE, University of St. Andrews, UK
Patric JANNASCH, Lund University, Sweden
M.Jesus LAZARO ELORRI, ICB-CSIC, Spain
Martin MUELLER/Detlef STOLTEN, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Meng NI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Elena PASTOR, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
Eliana QUARTARONE, University of Pavia, Italy
Thomas SCHMIDT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Masahiro WATANABE, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Etsuo AKIBA, Kyushu University, Japan
Andreas BORGSCHULTE, EMPA, Switzerland
Ping CHEN, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Huub DE GROOT, Leiden University, Netherlands
Petra E. DE JONGH, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Martin DORNHEIM, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
Alexander GOLDBERG, Schrödinger Inc., USA
Nobuko HANADA, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Bjorn HAUBACK, Institute for Energy Technology, Norway
Puru JENA, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
J. Karl JOHNSON, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Angel LINARES-SOLANO, University of Alicante, Spain
Anthony McDANIEL, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Hiroki MIYAOKA, Hiroshima University, Japan
Shin-ichi ORIMO, Tohoku University, Japan
Aldo STEINFELD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Myunghyun Paik SUH, Seoul National University, Korea
Roel VAN DE KROL / Fatwa F. ABDI, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany
Gavin WALKER, University of Nottingham, UK
Chris WOLVERTON, Northwestern University, USA
Andreas ZÜTTEL, EMPA, Switzerland

Palani BALAYA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Philippe BARBOUX, University of Paris, France
Thierry BROUSSE, IMN/CNRS, France
George Zheng CHEN, University of Nottingham, UK
Claude DELMAS, ICMCB-CNRS, France
Mickael DOLLE, CEMES-CNRS, France
Bruce S. DUNN, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Steve G. GREENBAUM, Hunter College at CUNY, USA
Dominique GUYOMARD, CNRS-IMN, France
Hideki IBA / Shinji NAKANISHI, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Kwang-Bum KIM, Yonsei University, Korea
Maksym KOVALENKO, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Stefano PASSERINI, University of Münster, Germany
Emanuel PELED, Tel Aviv University, Israel
S.R.S. PRABAHARAN, VIT University, India
Jeffrey SAKAMOTO, Michigan State University, USA
Mathieu SALANNE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Hsi-Sheng TENG, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Marcel WEIL, Karlsruhe Institut of Technologie (KIT), Germany

Benjamin BALKE, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Thierry CAILLAT, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Laurent CHAPUT, Université de Lorraine, France
Ryoji FUNAHASHI, AIST, Japan
Emmanuel GUILMEAU, ENSICAEN-CRISMAT Lab, France
Jan D. KOENIG, Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM, Germany
Kunihito KOUMOTO, Nagoya University, Japan
Evgenii LEVIN, Iowa State University, USA
Rutvik MEHTA, Thermoaura Inc, USA
Donald T. MORELLI, Michigan State University, USA
Takao MORI, NIMS - MANA, Japan
George S. NOLAS, University of South Florida, USA
Vidvuds OZOLINS, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Zhifeng REN, University of Houston, USA
Ali SHAKOURI, Purdue University, USA
Xun SHI, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China
Ichiro TERASAKI, Nagoya University, Japan
Anke WEIDENKAFF, University of Stuttgart, Germany & EMPA, Switzerland
Marcus WINKLER, Fraunhofer Inst.for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM, Germany
Takahiro YAMADA, Tohoku University, Japan
Mona ZEBARJADI, Rutgers University, USA
Tiejun ZHU, Zhejiang University, China

M.Cristina CANELA, Univ.Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF), Brazil
Elio GIAMELLO, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Csaba JANAKY, University of Szeged & Univ.of Texas at Arlington, Hungary/USA
Nicolas KELLER, ICPEES - CNRS et Université de Strasbourg, France
Ewa KOWALSKA, Hokkaido University, Japan
Antoni MORAWSKI, West Pomerania University of Technology, Poland
Bunsho OHTANI, Hokkaido University, Japan
David F. OLLIS, North Carolina State University, USA
Alexander ORLOV, State University of New York, USA
Avner ROTHSCHILD, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Benigno SANCHEZ CABRERO, CIEMAT, Spain
Elena SELLI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Daniel VANMAEKELBERGH, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Peter C.K. VESBORG, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Zdenek ARNOLD, Institute of Physics AS CR, Czech Rep.
Ekkes BRUCK, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Nora DEMPSEY, Institut Neel, France
Jun DING, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Claudia FELSER, Max-Planck-Institut f.Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Germany
Oliver GUTFLEISCH, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
George C. HADJIPANAYIS, University of Delaware, USA
Ryusuke HASEGAWA, Metglas Inc., USA
Yanglong HOU, Peking University, China
Olivier ISNARD, Institut Neel, France
Manfred KOHL, Karlsuhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Matthew J. KRAMER, Iowa State University, USA
Afef LEBOUC, Grenoble Electrical Engineering Laboratory, France
Laura H. LEWIS, Northeastern University, USA
J. Ping LIU, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
Akihiro MAKINO, Tohoku University, Japan
Lluis MANOSA, University of Barcelona, Spain
Xavier MOYA, University of Cambridge, UK
Karl SANDEMAN, Imperial College, UK
Navid SEPEHRI-AMIN, NIMS, Japan
Ivan SKORVANEK, Institute of Experimental Physics SAS, Slovakia
Kari ULLAKKO, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Keith BARNHAM, Imperial College London, UK
Claudia BAROLO, University of Torino, Italy
Thomas BROWN, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Elisabetta COLLINI, University of Padova, Italy
Juan Luis DELGADO, IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain
Ken DUROSE, University of Liverpool, UK
Roberto FUSCO, ENI SpA, Italy / Lucio Claudio ANDREANI, University of Pavia, Italy
Thomas HANNAPPEL, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
Reiner KLENK, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
Guglielmo LANZANI, Politecnico di Milano & Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Francesco MATTEUCCI, TRE-Tozzi Renewable Energy, Italy
Shigeru NIKI, AIST, Japan
Jan-Willem SCHUTTAUF/Christophe BALLIF, EPFL, Switzerland
Natalie STINGELIN, Imperial College London, UK
Kazuo TAKIMIYA, RIKEN, Japan
Deren YANG, Zhejiang University, China

Daniel BELLET, Grenoble INP, France
Reuben T. COLLINS, Colorado School of Mines, USA
John CONLEY, Oregon State University, USA
Klaus ELLMER, Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, Germany
David S. GINLEY, NREL, USA
Hao GONG, National University Singapore, Singapore
Marius GRUNDMANN, Leipzig University, Germany
Masataka HASEGAWA, AIST, Japan
Julia W.P. HSU / Yun-Ju LEE, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
George KIRIAKIDIS, University of Crete, Greece
Takashi KOIDA, AIST, Japan
Sang Yeol LEE, Cheongju University, Korea
Rodrigo MARTINS, CEMOP/UNINOVA, Portugal
Julia E. MEDVEDEVA, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Toshihiro MIYATA, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Martyn E. PEMBLE, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
John PERKINS, NREL, USA
Marina RUMYANTSEVA, Moscow State University, Russia
Giorgio SBERVEGLIERI, University of Brescia, Italy
David O. SCANLON, University College London, Ireland
Bernd SZYSZKA, TU Berlin, Germany
Michael TONEY, Stanford University, USA
Chris G. VAN DE WALLE, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Tim VEAL, University of Liverpool, UK

Martin ALBRECHT, Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Germany
Etienne BARANOFF, University of Birmingham, UK
Pallab BHATTACHARYA, University of Michigan, USA
Martin DAWSON, University of Strathclyde, UK
Hiroshi FUJIOKA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Axel HOFFMANN, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Jeong-Ik LEE, OLED Research Center, Korea
Hideto MIYAKE, Mie University, Japan
Yasushi NANISHI, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Jongwook PARK, Catholic University of Korea, Korea
Ferdinand SCHOLZ, University of Ulm, Germany
Jong-In SHIM, Hanyang University, Korea
Zlatko SITAR, North Carolina State University, USA
Mao-Kuo WEI, National Dong Hua Unviersity, Taiwan
Berit WESSLER, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany
Magnus WILLANDER, Linköping University, Sweden
Ken-Tsung WONG, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Xinhai ZHANG, South University of Science and Technology of China, China

Theodore BESMANN, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Jean-Louis BOUTARD, CEA Saclay, France
Thak-Sang BYUN, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Zhenqi CHANG, University of Science and Technology of China, China
V.M. CHERNOV, JSC "A.A. Bochvar Institute", Russia
Sergei DUDAREV, UKAEA, UK
Chu Chun FU, CEA/DEN/DANS/DMN/SRMP, Centre de Saclay, France
Ermile GAGANIDZE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Tammana JAYAKUMAR, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
Yutai KATOH, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kenji KONASHI, Tohoko University, Japan
Jochen LINKE, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Christian LINSMEIER, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Shaojun LIU, Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, China
Jaime MARIAN, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA
Stephane MATHIEU, University of Lorraine, France
Anton MOESLANG, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Gerald PINTSUK, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Marek RUBEL, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Leo SANNEN, SCK / CEN, Belgium
Tatsuo SHIKAMA, Tohoku University, Japan
Naoki SONEDA, CRIEPI, Japan
Izabela SZLUFARSKA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Lisa VENTELON / Francois WILLAIME, CEA Saclay, France
Eiichi WAKAI, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Thierry WISS, Institute for Transuranium Elements, JRC, Germany

Andrey BUKAEMSKIY, Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-6), Germany
Isabelle GIBOIRE, CEA Marcoule, France
Stephane GIN, CEA Marcoule, France
Thomas HARTMANN, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Neil C. HYATT, The University of Sheffield, UK
Greg LUMPKIN, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
Josef MATYAS, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Hitoshi MIMURA, Tohoku University, Japan
Sylvain PEUGET, CEA Marcoule, France
Charlotta E. SANDERS, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Nobuaki SATO, Tohoku University, Japan
Sergey STEFANOVSKY, SIA Radon, Russia
Elie VALCKE, SCK.CEN, Belgium
Eric R. VANCE, ANSTO, Australia
Yue-Zhou WEI, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Daniel ARAUJO, University of Cadix, Spain
Jean-Charles ARNAULT, CEA Saclay, France
Marina BAIDAKOVA, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia
Alexander BALANDIN, University of California, Riverside, USA
Florian BANHART, University of Strasbourg, France
Philippe BERGONZO, CEA, LIST Institute - DCSI, France
Christophe BICHARA, CINaM, France
Cinzia CASIRAGHI, University of Manchester, UK
Luigi COLOMBO, Texas Instruments Incorporated, USA
Luis ECHEGOYEN, University of Texas, El Paso, USA
Bastian ETZOLD, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Xinliang FENG, Max Plank & Shanghai University, Germany/China
Etienne GHEERAERT, Institut Néel CNRS, France
Ken HAENEN, Hasselt University, Belgium
Kenji HATA, AIST, Japan
Mark C. HERSAM, Northwestern University, USA
Alexander HOLLEITNER, Technische Universität München, Germany
Hway Chuan KANG, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Stefan KASKEL,Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Sang Ouk KIM, KAIST, Korea
Arkady V. KRASHENINNIKOV, University of Helsinki, Finland
Wolfgang MERTIN, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Vadym N. MOCHALIN, Drexel University, USA
Robert NEMANICH, Arizona State University, USA
Volker PRESSER, INM-Leibniz Inst.for New Materials GmbH, Germany
Wencai REN, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, China
Bohuslav REZEK, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, Czech Rep.
Fedor SHAKHOV, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia
E.F. SHEKA, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia
Kazu SUENAGA, AIST, Japan
Daisuke TAKEUCHI, AIST, Japan
Levente TAPASZTO, Inst.of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Hungary
Maria Letizia TERRANOVA,University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Oliver WILLIAMS, University of Cardiff, UK
Rositza YAKIMOVA, Linköping University, Sweden
Ting YU, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Koji AMEZAWA, Tohoku University, Japan
David AWSCHALOM, University of Chicago, USA
Boris S. BOKSTEIN, National Univ.of Science and Tech. "MISIS", Russia
Zhihong CHEN, Purdue University, USA
Ioannis DERETZIS, CNR-IMM, Italy
Jorge R. FRADE, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Paul HEITJANS, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Tatsumi ISHIHARA, Kyushu University, Japan
Tatsuya KAWADA, Tohoku University, Japan
Aleksey KOZIKOV, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Fernando MARQUES, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Manfred MARTIN, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Graeme MURCH, Newcastle University, Australia
Amy NOVICK-COHEN, Technion, Israel
Lourdes PELAZ, University of Valladolid, Spain
Eugen RABKIN, Technion, Israel
Jutta ROGAL/Ralf DRAUTZ, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Paul A. SALVADOR, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Boris STRAUMAL, Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS, Russia
Shu, YAMAGUCHI, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Bilge YILDIZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Hiroo YUGAMI, Tohoku University, Japan

Marco BERNASCONI, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Roberto BEZ, Micron Semiconductor Itali, Italy
Julie GROLLIER, CNRS/Thales, France
Alexei GRUVERMAN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Tsuyoshi HASEGAWA, NIMS - MANA, Japan
Cheol Seong HWANG, Seoul National University, Korea
Daniele IELMINI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Etienne JANOD, Universitè de Nantes, France
Jinfeng KANG, Peking University, China
Ming LIU, Institute of Microelectronics, CAS, China
Massimo LONGO, CNR-IMM, Italy
Thomas MIKOLAJICK, Nam-Lab, Germany
Beatriz NOHEDA, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Hideo OHNO, Tohoku University, Japan
Lucian PREJBEANU, INAC/CEA Grenoble, France
Dafinè RAVELOSONA, Université Paris Sud, France
Ilan RIESS, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Dmitri STRUKOV, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Andy THOMAS, Bielefeld University, Germany
Junji TOMINAGA, AIST, Japan
Elisa VIANELLO, IMM-CNR, Italy
Rainer WASER, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
R. Stanley WILLIAMS / Janice H. NICKEL, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
C.David WRIGHT, University of Exeter, UK
Matthias WUTTIG, RWTH, Aachen, Germany

Ryotaro ARITA, RIKEN, Japan
Arun BANSIL, Northeastern University, USA
Emilio BELLINGERI, SPIN-CNR, Italy
Gianluigi BOTTON, McMaster University, Canada
Annette BUSSMANN-HOLDER, Max Planck Inst.for Solid State Research, Germany
Alexandre I. BUZDIN, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Dario DAGHERO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrea DAMASCELLI, University of British Columbia, Canada
Daniele DI CASTRO, SPIN-CNR & University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Hong DING, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Hiroshi EISAKI, AIST, Japan
Atsushi FUJIMORI, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wilfried GOLDACKER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Fedor GOMÖRY, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Hideo HOSONO / Hidenori HIRAMATSU, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshihiro IWASA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hazuki KAWANO-FURUKAWA, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Hsin LIN, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jose LORENZANA, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Lutfi OZYUZER, Izmir IT, Turkey
Shuheng PAN, University of Houston, USA
Christos PANAGOPOULOS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Enric PARDO, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Yung Woo PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Jason ROBINSON, University of Cambridge, UK
Takasada SHIBAUCHI, Kyoto University, Japan
Denis SUNKO, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeff TALLON, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Maw Kuen WU, National Dong Hwa University & Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ayako YAMAMOTO, RIKEN, Japan
Martin ZEHETMAYER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Polina ANIKEEVA, MIT, USA
Laura BALLERINI, University of Trieste, Italy
Maria BASSIL, Lebanese University, Lebanon
Serena BEST, University of Cambridge, UK
Aldo R. BOCCACCINI, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Herbert BOUSACK, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
David BRAYDEN, University College of Dublin, Ireland
Brian DERBY, The University of Manchester, UK
Noam ELIAZ, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Yasuhiko IWASAKI, Kansai University, Japan
Esmaiel JABBARI, University of South Carolina, USA
Tao JIANG, University of Connecticut, USA
Cato LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut, USA
Marcelle MACHLUF, Technion, Israel
Mizuo MAEDA, RIKEN, Japan
Roger Jagdish NARAYAN, UNC/NCSU Joint Dept.of Biomedical Eng., USA
Jun OHTA, Nara Institute of Science & Technology, Japan
Christelle PRINZ, Lund University, Sweden
Mario I. ROMERO-ORTEGA, University ofTexas at Arlington, USA
Sirinrath SIRIVISOOT, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Micha SPIRA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
André STUDART, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Hasan ULUDAG, University of Alberta, Canada
Thomas J. WEBSTER, Northeastern University, USA
Jackie YING / Motoichi KURISAWA, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
Shlomo YITZCHAIK, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nobuhiko YUI, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Dimitrios ZEUGOLIS, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Guillermo A. AMEER, Northwestern University, USA
Marc BEHL, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
Marcelo CALDERON, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Aranzazu DEL CAMPO, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany
Andrew DOVE, University of Warwick, UK
Mitsuhiro EBARA, NIMS, Japan
Yakai FENG, Tianjin University, China
James HENDERSON, Syracuse University, USA
Weimin M. HUANG, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Katharina LANDFESTER / Frederik R. WURM, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Pavel A. LEVKIN, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Duncan MAITLAND, Texas A&M University, USA
Phillip B. MESSERSMITH, Northwestern University, USA
Jie SONG, University of Massachusetts, USA
Nicola TIRELLI, University of Manchester, UK
Thomas WILSON, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Ryo YOSHIDA, University of Tokyo, Japan

Ilangko BALASINGHAM, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway
Lorenzo CHIARI, DEI - Università di Bologna, Italy
Monica CRACIUN, University of Exeter, UK
Fabio DI FRANCESCO, University of Pisa, Italy
Dermot DIAMOND, Dublin City University, Ireland
Jean LUPRANO, CSEM, Switzerland
Rita PARADISO, Smartex Srl, Italy
Stefano STANZIONE, imec-NL, Netherlands
George STYLIOS, Heriot Watt University, UK
Toshiyo TAMURA, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
Jan VANFLETEREN, Ghent University, Belgium