Some weeks ago, being an opponent in a PhD thesis defence, I had the pleasure to visit professors Tuula and Tapani Pakkanen at the
University of Eastern Finland. Many in
VPHA may remember Tapani Pakkanen as the person who started quantum chemical calculations on
ALD in the early 1980s.
Among other things, we discussed the VPHA ALD history activities. One thing that I learned from the Pakkanens is that in the early 1990s, an ALD conference has been organized in Joensuu, Finland, called ACSI-2. This conference was missing from the
VPHA-ALD-conference-list and has since then been added. The full conference name was "
Second International Symposium on Atomically Controlled Surfaces and Interfaces". Proceedings were published in
Applied Surface Science 75 (1994) 1-363. As this was "ACSI-2", it is obvious that an "ACSI-1" and probably at least "ACSI-3" (and maybe more?) has been organized.
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| Tuomo Suntola and Riikka Puurunen at Micronova, Espoo, Finland, November 25, 2016. Photo by Mikko Utriainen. |
Yesterday, on November the 25th, Dr.
Tuomo Suntola visited
VTT Micronova (see the photo). Suntola confirmed that the ACSI conference series was organized around the topic of ALD---which was of course not called ALD at that time. Suntola told furthermore that the ACSI conferences were organized largely on the initiative of Prof.
Jun-ichi Nishizawa from Japan (biographical article
here), and that at least one of the conferences has been organized in Sendai, Japan.
