n Lieu : Grenade - Espagne n Dates : du Lundi 9 au Vendredi 13 septembre n 350 participants environ n présentations orales : ~ 85 (15 présentations invitées) n présentations en poster : ~ 320 Matériaux Etudiés : Diamond, DLC, CNT, Nitrides, SiC n 2 sessions d exposés généraux (5 exposés) Lundi matin n 2 sessions posters : Lundi et jeudi n 16 sessions d exposés oraux n Fin du congrès Vendredi midi Diamond th European Conference (Granada) 8-13 sept Compte rendu B.Angleraud LPCM, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel - Nantes

Sessions exposés généraux n J.E. Field, Cambridge University, UK Strengh, fracture and erosion properties of diamond n T.A. Friedman, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Stress relaxation mechanisms in tetrahedral amorphous-carbon for MEMS applications PLD, NMR, sp2/sp3, Annealing n G. Dujardin, Université Paris Sud, France atomic scale studies on diamond surfaces STM sur diamant en mode émission de champ n W.I. Milne, Cambridge University, UK Gated arrays of carbon nanotubes/fibres for field emission applications patterned arrays of aligned MWCNT. Patterning of the catalyst. Field emission behaviour n R. Hauert, Swiss Federal Lab for materials testing and Research, Sw Modified DLC coatings for biological applications

n Growth and Nucleation, 5 exp. Spongy carbon (Barborini, Univ. Milano Italy) produced by a pulsed µplasma cluster source with catalyst. Fully covalent in 3D. Nanostructured carbon with fully sp2 networks n Nanotubes, 4 exp.// Electronic properties (Louie Univ. Berkeley USA) role of catalyst (Alexandrou, Univ. Cambridge, UK) study of the shape and structure of the catalyst (Ni) - PECVD Raman spectra (Ando, Tokyo Univ.) µraman, polarized raman, and Surface-enhance resonant raman (SERS) techniques used to study MWNT Nanotubes to DLC, 6 exp.// transformation of graphite to diamond under particle irradiation (Banhart, Univ. Ulm, Germany) by electron irradiation from self compression of carbon onions in graphite CNT to diamond (Yusa, Japan) nanocrystalline diamond compacts from MWCNT under high pressure and high temperature. Reducing the transition temperature to diamond Sessions orales concernant le carbone amorphe, les nanotubes

Density control (Choi, Samsung Korea) study if diameter and distribution of Ni nanoparticles - correlation with Ni film thickness - variation of size and density of Ni particles using NH3 plasma pre-treatment sp3 formation (Robertson, Cambridge Univ.) 3 state model : sp2 and sp3 sites and intersitial sites. Influence of the growth temperature XPS UPS taC, a-C (Reinke, Univ. Gottingen Germany) importance of the sp2 surface layer. n DLC, 6 exp.// Density of states (Fanchini, Torino, Italy) Raman CNx (Ferrari Univ Cambridge) no direct CN,NN,NH contributions are detectable in the D and G region of the Raman spectra - effect of N is indirect via the modification of the clustering of the sp2 phase IR (CNx) ( Rodil,Univ. Mexico) effect of N on IR peak intensity : polarisation of sp2 phase induced by the N terminal atoms n Field Emission, 5 exp. Conductivity measurement and field emission measurement of sp2 tracks induced by ion bombardment of DLC films (Zollondz Berlin, Germany) n Nitrides, 6 exp. cBN, AlGaN/AlN mirrors, BCN low dielectric contant film of BCN by PACVD (Tai, Osaka, Japan)

Répartition globale par Matériaux de Diamond 2002 Diamond SiC DLC Nitrides Nanotubes Fullerenes Diamond 2000