Updated October 9, 2016
The 14th
International Baltic Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (Baltic ALD 2016, http://www.bald2016.ru/) was organized in St. Petersburg,
Russia, on October 3-4, 2016.
The
conference consisted of one day of invited lectures and one day of contributed
talks and posters. The conference venue was Solo Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge
(V.o. Birzhevoi Pereulok 2-4, St. Petersburg, 199004) on the Vasilievsky Island. A get-together event was organized on October 2, 2016. The conference chairman
was Prof. Vladimir Kutuzov, the rector of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University"LETI" and the chairman of the International Advisory Board was Prof.
Markku Leskelä from the University of Helsinki. Central local organizers were Prof. Nikolay Egorov and Prof. Alexey Ivanov from LETI. Roughly forty persons participated at the
conference. I (Riikka Puurunen) had the pleasure to participate at BALD 2016 both as an invited speaker and as a regular contributor. This was the third time that I participated at a Baltic ALD conference; earlier, I have attended the Baltic ALD of
2014 in Helsinki and of
2015 in Tartu (
travel report).
The opening words of the conference were delivered by Vladimir Kutuzov and Markku Leskelä. Then followed the talks by
invited speakers: Riikka Puurunen (VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland), Victor Drozd (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), Mikko Ritala
(University of Helsinki, Finland), Emma Salmi (Beneq, Finland), Erwin Kessels
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Tobias Törndahl (Uppsala
University, Sweden), Andrey Markeev (Moscow Instititute of Physics and
Technology, Russia) and Victor Luchinin (St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University
“LETI”, Russia). According to the programme, there were 27 contributed talks
and 22 posters.
This is the first time that a meeting in the “Baltic ALD” conference series has been organized in Russia. As told by Markku Leskelä, the Baltic ALD conference
series started as a local meeting between Helsinki University of Technology and
Tartu University; the first meeting was organized in 1991. Conferences have been organized somewhat irregularly,
the typical time between consecutive conferences having been two years (but
sometimes just one, and once even five years).
The
conference was interesting not only because of its historical significance but also
because of its scientific contents. As stated by Markku Leskelä in his closing
words, this meeting was “a good member in the Baltic ALD series.” Hopefully, the international ALD community can meet in St. Petersburg again in the future.
Below, you
find some photos from the conference. Most of the photos have been taken by myself. Some photos are from Tomi Iivonen, Kaupo Kukli, and Fabio Grillo, and I am grateful for them all for allowing me to publish their photos in this blog post.
Updates
* October 9, 2016; VPHA signature moved to the end; photo added of Aris Goulas; screen capture of the conference website's welcome words added.
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| Twitter, @rlpuu: "In , leaving to to 2016. Interesting conference to come! " Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Twitter, @rlpuu: "This fence follows the HEL-StPb Allegro train all along the Russian side, keepsing wild animals away. ". Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Roofs of St. Petersburg, as seen from my hotel room. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Welcoming words to the conference on the conference website http://www.bald2016.ru/. Screen capture taken on October 9, 2016. |
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| First day of the conference (photo by Riikka Puurunen). |
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| Book of abstracts of Baltic ALD 2016. Photo by Riikka Puurunen, |
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| The opening address was delivered by Prof. Vladimir Kutuzov, rector of LETI. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Prof. Markku Leskelä described the earlier BALD meetings in his opening address. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Twitter, @rlpuu: "Prof Markku Leskelä from described the conference series in St Petersburg. ". Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| I had the honour to give the first invited talk at the conference, about the VPHA project, link to presentation here (partial live record here). The organizers had made introductory slides of all invited speakers. Photo by Kaupo Kukli. |
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| In my ALD history presentation (link here), I reviewed major advancements steps taken place during the VPHA in 2013-2016. This particular slide described the ALD Russia 2015 workshop a year ago. Photo by Kaupo Kukli. |
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| The 2nd invited talk was by Prof Victor Drozd, a pioneer of building vacuum ALD reactors in Russia. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Prof. Mikko Ritala gave an invited talk on "Challenges, opportunities and new approaches in ALD process development". Core message: "the success of ALD is built on chemistry." Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Ritala referred to our joint review (J. Appl. Phys. 113, 021301 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4757907) in his invited talk, with the "periodic table of ALD processes. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Dr. Emma Salmi from Beneq gave an interesting invited talk on recent ALD developments - with "growth per cycle (GPC, nm)" and "growth rate (nm/min)" in the same slide! Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Prof. Erwin Kessels was walking in St. Petersburg in the footsteps of Nikolai Gogol and gave an interesting lecture (again) on PEALD. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Dr. Tobias Törndahl gaved an invited talk on recent developments of ALD for solar cells. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Dr. Andrey Markeev --- organizer of ALD Russia 2015 --- gave an invited talk on ALD for memory applications. |
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| Prof. Victor Luchinin gave an invited talk, discussing ALD and Langmuir-Blodgett techniques. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| In his invited talk, Luchinin discussed the history of ALD, too. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Twitter, @rlpuu: "Very interesting first day full of invited talks at 2016 in . Entrance to conf. venue photo.". Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Monday evening, we had a boat cruise with dinner on river Neva. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Prof. Nikolai Yegorov wished everyone welcome. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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Twitter, @iivosen_tomi: " and crew enjoying conferce dinner/cruise  " Photo by Tomi Iivonen. |
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| Photo taken from the ALD 2016 dinner cruise, by Fabio Grillo. |
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| On Tuesday, I gave a contributed talk on the conformality measurements for ALD films, continuing on the work reported in http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.4903941 (open access here). Photo by Kaupo Kukli. |
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| Coffee break at the conference. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Dr. Aris Goulas gave an interesting talk on ALD for the coating of powders. This slide shows the latest view on the history of the topic. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Twitter, @rlpuu: "Posters & viewers at 2016. " . Photo by Riikka Puurunen. |
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| Twitter, @rlpuu: "Luchinin, Puurunen & Drozd at St. Petersburg October 4, 2016. Photo taken by Fabio Grillo. ". |
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| Final words by Prof. Alexey Ivanov. Photo by Riikka Puurunen |
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