International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors

Since the second conference in 1997, hosting of the event has rotated between the Asian, European and North American continents.

The ICNS and the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN) are held in alternating years, both covering similar subject areas.

ICNS-9 was held at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, on 10–15 July 2011.

Plenary talks were given by Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya University, Japan), Debdeep Jena (Cornell University, USA), Elison Matioli (EPFL, Switzerland), Takashi Mukai (Nichia Corp, Japan), Åsa Haglund (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Aurélien David (Google, USA), Ken Nakata (Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Japan).

Conference chairs are Vanya Darakchieva (Lund University), Piotr Perlin (Center for High Pressure Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Unipress), Warsaw, Poland) and Lars Samuelson (Lund University, Sweden and Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China).