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From April 18th to 21st, the 19th Academic Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry was grandly held in Wuhan. The conference was hosted by the Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, and co-organized by the School of Earth Sciences of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), and the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Over 1,500 experts and scholars from across the country gathered to discuss new research findings and collaborate on solving scientific challenges.
The Second Ceramic Youth Academic Conference of the Chinese Crystallographic Society and the International Symposium on Innovation and Development of Advanced Ceramic Materials were successfully held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province from April 11th to April 13th, 2025. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and aiming to accelerate the construction of a strong science and technology nation and achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, this conference focused on the theme of "Innovation and Development of Advanced Ceramic Materials," highlighting the academic frontiers of advanced ceramic material design, preparation, and application. It showcased new concepts and achievements in the field of advanced ceramic materials in my country, creating a higher-quality platform for cooperation and exchange, and promoting the inheritance and development of my country's advanced ceramic science.
The "Advanced Ceramics Summit Forum" is a professional academic conference jointly organized by the editorial departments of Journal of Advanced Ceramics and Modern Technical Ceramics (hereinafter referred to as the two journals). It aims to build an offline communication platform for journal editors, authors, and readers (reviewers). The first, second, and third Advanced Ceramics Summit Forums, held in April 2021, April 2023, and April 2024 respectively, attracted nearly a thousand experts, scholars, graduate students, and technical personnel from related enterprises.
From April 10th to 13th, 2025, the 2nd Applied Physics Conference was successfully held at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The conference was hosted by the Chinese Physical Society and jointly organized by the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the Applied Physics Center of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The conference aimed to contribute to building a strong nation through science and technology, fully leveraging the crucial role of physics research in promoting technological innovation, and fostering academic exchange and interdisciplinary integration between researchers engaged in cutting-edge fundamental and applied physics research and industry professionals. The conference featured seven themes: Semiconductor Physics and Devices, Infrared Physics and Optoelectronic Devices, Terahertz/Microwave/Millimeter-wave Physics and Technology, Quantum Sensing and Detection, Advanced Optics, Applied Magnetism, and Extreme Conditions Physics and Technology. It included 6 plenary invited talks, 110 invited talks in parallel sessions, 95 oral presentations in parallel sessions, and 80 poster presentations, attracting 550 representatives from over 140 institutions nationwide. A roundtable forum on the theme of "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Physics and Materials" was also held during the conference.
From March 25-28, 2025, the 6th Youth Planetary Forum grandly opened in Tunxi, Anhui. This forum was organized by the Youth Planetary Forum Council and the China University Planetary Science Alliance, and hosted by the School of Earth and Space Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China. It featured sixteen themes (including five special projects) and attracted numerous young scholars and enterprise representatives from both China and abroad.
From March 21-23, 2025, the "2025 China Structural Materials Conference and the 11th National Conference on Preparation/Processing and Application Technology of Non-ferrous Metal Structural Materials" was successfully held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. This conference further promoted academic prosperity, technological innovation, and industrial development in my country's structural materials field, fostering the development of high-performance, composite, and structurally integrated functional materials, strengthening the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and facilitating the exchange of innovative scientific and technological achievements and applications in the field of structural materials in recent years.
The emergence and application of sputtering technology has gone through many stages. After more than 30 years of development, magnetron sputtering technology has developed into an irreplaceable method for optical, electrical and other functional thin films.How much do you know about them?
On the basis of basic magnetron sputtering,high vacuum and high temperature growth environment are introduced, and plasma technology is combined to improve the reaction efficiency of reactive deposition, so as to realize magnetron sputtering film epitaxy. The film prepared under this high vacuum condition has a better lattice orientation and more outstanding crystal properties. It has a wide range of applications in superconducting quantum, ferroelectric materials, piezoelectric materials, thermoelectric materials and other fields. The high vacuum state helps to reduce the influence of impurities and ensure that the sputtered particles do not react adversely with other gases during the deposition process.