The 78th Physical Electronics Conference at the University of Hampshire follows in the tradition of annual PEC meetings held on university campuses and research labs in North America. This topical conference provides a yearly forum for the dissemination and discussion of novel and fundamental theoretical and experimental research in the physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering of surfaces and interfaces. It includes the prestigious Nottingham Prize competition for best presentation based on doctoral research. Over 75 years the emphases of the conference have changed, yet the meeting remains centered in its basis of fundamental science at material interfaces. Central themes now include the interfaces of metals, semiconductors, ionic conductors, dielectrics, insulators, fluids, porous materials, and the wealth of biomaterials.
Physicists, chemists, and engineers, with interests in these fields, come together to present and discuss experimental and theoretical research on exposed (gas-solid or gas-liquid) surfaces, or buried (liquid-solid and solid-solid) interfaces. Representative topics include (but are not limited to) electronic, chemical, magnetic, and structural properties of interfaces; energetics, kinetics, and dynamics of physical and chemical transformations at surfaces; formation, assembly, structural and electronic properties, and modeling of nanoscale surface architectures; effects of electron correlation at surfaces, and topological insulators; interfacial interactions of biological materials; impacts of interface chirality; mechanisms of film growth and interface evolution; and transfer of energy, electrons, or ions across materials interfaces. New methods/techniques for interrogation of interfaces, novel devices or sensors, and new applications for structurally and chemically tailored interfaces also fall within the scope of this meeting.
Previous PEC Hosts
1966 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1967 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1968 University of Minnesota
1969 Yale University
1970 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
1971 National Bureau of Standards
1972 Sandia Laboratories
1973 University of California – Berkeley
1974 Bell Laboratories
1975 Penn State University
1976 University of Wisconsin – Madison
1977 Stanford University
1978 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1979 University of Maryland
1980 Cornell University
1981 Montana State University
1982 Georgia Institute of Technology
1983 Sandia National Laboratories
1984 Princeton University
1985 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
1986 University of Texas – Austin
1987 IBM Almaden Research
1988 Brookhaven National Laboratory
1989 University of Washington
1990 National Institute of Standards
1991 Rutgers University – Piscataway
1992 University of California – Irvine
1993 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1994 University of Tennessee
1995 Arizona State University
1996 Boston University
1997 University of Oregon
1998 Pennsylvania State University
1999 University of California – Berkeley
2000 Louisiana State University
2001 Sandia National Laboratories
2002 Georgia Institute of Technology
2003 Cornell University
2004 University of California – Davis
2005 University of Wisconsion – Madison
2006 Princeton University
2007 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008 University of California – Riverside
2009 Rutgers University – New Brunswick
2010 University of Wisconsin – Milkwaukee
2011 University at Albany
2012 University of Texas – Dallas
2013 North Carolina State University
2014 University of Wisconson – La Crosse
2015 Rutgers University – New Brunswick
2016 University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
2017 Portland State University
2018 University of New Hampshire