Topic Categories

1. Deposition Technologies
   • Process control, monitoring and automation
   • Low and high energy deposition techniques
   • Industrial sputtered coatings
   • Pulsed deposition processes
   • Novel deposition methods
   • Substrate cleaning, coating post-treatment techniques and contamination
   • Patterning processes for coatings and filters
2. Applications – Coatings for…
   • Sensing
   • Renewable energy
   • Micro-opto-electro-mechanical-systems (MOEMS)
   • Displays and lighting
   • Life sciences
   • Astronomy and gravitational wave detection
   • Space and aerospace
   • UV, EUV and X-ray
   • Polarization management
   • Security and defense
   • Telecom/datacom
   • Color management and ophthalmology
   • Automotive
   • Lasers ultrafast lasers and extreme light
   • and others
3. Coating and Substrate Materials
   • Smart materials
   • Micro- and nano-structures, metamaterials and photonic crystals
   • Organic coatings
   • Metal coatings
   • Transparent conductive coatings
   • Composite material coatings
   • Novel materials
4. Characterization and Properties of Coatings
   • Optical properties: transmission, reflection, absorption and scattering
   • Birefringence and nonlinearity
   • Optical and non-optical thin film characterization techniques
   • Micro and nanostructure properties
   • Fundamentals of thin film growth and simulations
   • Mechanical and tribological properties: stress, hardness, adhesion and cohesion
   • Mechanical thermal noise and energy dissipation
   • Color properties and luminescence
   • Thermal properties
   • Environmental stability and testing
   • Laser induced damage
   • Postproduction characterization
5. Design of Coatings
   • Analytical and computer-based design techniques
   • Deposition and manufacturing simulations
   • Designing for polarization control, phase control or ultrafast optics
   • Nanostructured coatings, metamaterials and metasurfaces
   • Non-uniform, anisotropic or non-linear materials
   • Waveguides, fibers and laser facet coatings
6. Fields of Current Interest
   • Precision on an atomic scale
   • Materials for quantum technologies
   • 2D materials
   • Coatings for laser fusion
   • Interference coatings in AR/VR
   • AI in process control