This forum was founded by Professor Emeritus
Koji Sumino (Tohoku University) in 1997 and
1999 at Kazusa Academia Park in Chiba
Prefecture. Subsequently, the venues were
changed to Shonan Village Center of Hayama-cho
in Kanagawa Prefecture for the forums in 2001
and 2003, and to Toki Messe in Niigata
Prefecture in 2007, and to Okayama University
in 2010. The Okayama forum 2010 was
co-organized by the 145th Committee on
Processing and Characterization of Crystals of
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS) in combination with the Organizing Committee of
The Forum on the Science and Technology of Silicon
Materials. The latest one was held in 2014 at
Hamamatsu congress center in Shizuoka
Prefecture.
The fundamental
policy of the forum has been: (1) the
promotion of the mutual cooperation between
the people in the industry and the academia,
(2) the education and stimulation of young
scientists and engineers, and (3) the
realization of face-to-face discussion on
various issues concerning silicon materials at
the international level. Since the Okayama
forum in 2010, the organizing committee of the
forum has been awarding the prize to the young
scientists who make excellent paper
contribution to the forum. In every forum,
many distinguished researchers have been
invited from the overseas to realize the live
and active discussion on the research subjects
of crucial importance. The papers contributed
to the forums are published as the
proceedings, representing the state-of-the-art
technologies in the silicon semiconductor
industry.
The forum has been
playing an important role in the field of the
science and technology of silicon materials,
as one of a few international conferences that
Japanese scientists and engineers voluntarily
organize. The scope of the forum has been
extended from the original topics, i.e.,
growth technologies of bulk silicon and epi
wafers, characterization and control of
defects and impurities, gettering and wafer
technologies, to the topics on materials
research for group IV semiconductors for
high-power devices, solar cells and other
electronic devices.
The present forum,
the 8th one, has come back again to Okayama
University in Okayama Prefecture. We expect a
wide variety of interesting presentations and
heated, fruitful discussion throughout the
forum. We believe that the present forum will
mark an important milestone in the progress of
the science and technology of silicon
materials. We welcome you all to Silicon Forum
2018, and are looking forward to seeing you in
Okayama, in November 2018.
September 22,
2017
Koji
Sueoka
Toshinori Taishi
Yoshifumi Yamashita
Naoki Fukata
Katsuto Tanahashi
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