Euro TMCS 2: Second Announcement

Euro-TMCS II: Theory, Modelling and Computational Methods for Semiconductors

Tyndall National Institute and University College Cork, Ireland

Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th December 2016

Second Announcement

Abstract submission is now open for Euro-TMCS II via http://www.tmcsuk.org/conferences/Euro-TMCSII/, with an abstract submission deadline of 16th September 2016.

Thanks to sponsorship from the EU MultiscaleSolar COST Action (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/mpns/MP1406), €500 bursaries will be available for 12 PhD students who submit abstracts to the meeting and participate in the training part of the event. To be considered for a bursary, please submit a one page abstract together with one page letter of support from your supervisor by 16th September 2016 as a single file. The bursaries will be awarded based on the scientific quality of abstracts and alignment with the scientific subjects of the conference. 

The introductory day (7th December) is a training event intended specifically for PhD students and early career researchers, with high level lectures on the most used methodologies in the field.

Modelling, theory and the use of sophisticated computational tools can represent a substantial cost and time saving for R&D. The development of high speed computer architectures now allows the widespread use of accurate methods for calculating the structural, thermodynamic, vibrational, electronic and optical properties of semiconductors and their heterostructures. This workshop, sponsored by the Institute of Physics, the EU project DEEPEN and the EU COST Action MultiscaleSolar, will run for three days, with the objective of bringing together leading experts in the field of theory of group IV, III-V and wider semiconductors together with postdocs and students in their early stages who will benefit from an introduction to a very vast field at this influential point in their careers. 

Topics will include but are not limited to:

• Density Functional Theory Calculations
• Tight Binding, Pseudopotential and Effective Mass Models for Electronic Structure
• Empirical Potential Methods for Calculation of Structural Properties
• Multi-scale Approaches
• Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors
• 2-D systems
• Photonic Structures
• Optical and Transport Properties of Quantum Nanostructures including Colloidals and Nanotubes
• Plasmonsic
• Electronic and Photonic Devices
• System demands and applications

A list of confirmed invited speakers includes:

• Thierry Amand (INSA Toulouse) “Exciton dynamics and spin-orbit effects in atomically thin TMDC and their alloys”
• Shelly Moram (Imperial College) “Design and Development of new multifunctional materials”
• Patrick Rinke (Aalto University) “Charge transfer at oxide/organic interfaces”
• Mark van Schilfgaarde (King’s College London) “Hybrid Perovskites”
• Yuh-Renn Wu (National Taiwan University) “Challenges in Optoelectronic Device Simulation”

In addition to the technical programme there will be ample opportunity to see Cork and its surroundings.

We look forward to welcoming you to Cork.

Eoin O’Reilly, Stefan Schulz, and Stanko Tomic (Conference Co-Chairs)

For any further information please contact Janine Galvin ([email protected] )

Sponsors:

University College Cork, Ireland

Institute of Physics, London

EU project: Deepen

EU COST: MultiScaleSolar

Tyndall National Institute, Ireland