“While the first decade of the International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors was extremely successful, the changes in the research effort that occurred with the pandemic have made it no longer practical to continue the workshop in its current form. We would like to thank the past participants and hope to see you at other venues for sharing this information. We hope it might be possible to revive the workshop in the future as part of a larger community.”

11th International Workshop on Bismuth Containing Semiconductors

Rehoboth, Delaware USA, July 26th-29th 2020

The 11th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors will be held in Rehoboth, Delaware, US, from July 26 to July 29, 2020.

This workshop will focus on the new class of bismuth-containing semiconductors, thermoelectric materials and topological insulators. Theory, epitaxial growth and characterization (optical, electrical and structural) of these novel materials will be addressed, as well as devices devoted to applications such as low power and energy efficient photonics, electronics, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and spintronics. Colleagues working on other highly mismatched alloys (GeSn, GaAsN…) are welcome to submit abstracts.

The goal of this workshop is to address the issues and boost the development of these emerging compounds taking benefit from the properties of bismuth. This interdisciplinary meeting gathers physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers, to exchange on this very active research area, in a condensed three-day workshop.

History

The International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors is an informal workshop meeting. Founded by the participants of the Materials World Network “III-V Bismide Materials for IR and Mid IR Semiconductors”, this workshop is organized mid-July every year. The founders have continued to serve as the steering committee to guide the workshop.

Preceding Workshops

1st International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment

University of Michigan, US, July 13-16, 2010 (hosted by Joanna Millunchick)
http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2011/BCS/Home.html

2nd International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment

University of Surrey, UK, July 17-20, 2011 (hosted by Stephen Sweeney)
http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/bismides

3rd International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Growth, Properties, and Devices

The University of Victoria, Canada, July 15-18, 2012 (hosted by Tom Tiedje)
http://bismuth.uvic.ca/

4th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Growth, Properties, and Devices

University of Arkansas, US, July 14-17, 2013 (hosted by Shui-Qing Yu)
http://www.eleg.uark.edu/Bismuth/

5th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Growth, Properties, and Devices

Tyndall Institute, Ireland, July 13-16, 2014 (hosted by Eoin O’Reilly)
http://www.ucc.ie/en/bismides

6th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Growth, Properties, and Devices

University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, July 19-22, 2015 (hosted by Susan Babcock)
http://bismideworkshop.engr.wisc.edu/

7th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors: Growth, Properties, and Devices

Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, China, July 24-27, 2016 (hosted by Shumin Wang)
http://bismideworkshop2016.csp.escience.cn

8th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors

Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany, July 23-26, 2017 (hosted by Kerstin Volz)

https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb13/biws2017

9th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors

Kyoto Institute of technology, Japan, July 15-18, 2018 (hosted by Masahiro Yoshimoto)

http://www.greenlab.kit.ac.jp/IWBS/iwbs2018.html

10th International Workshop on Bismuth-Containing Semiconductors

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, July 21-24, 2019 (hosted by Chantal Fontaine and Hélène Carrère)
https://sc-bismuth.sciencesconf.org