Workshop on 

Electronic, Photonic, Electro-Optical, and Electro-Magnetic
 Materials

October 6 & 7 , 1999

CALL FOR
PAPERS

Sparkman Center Auditorium
Redstone Arsenal, AL

OBJECTIVE:

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for reviewing progress and identifying research gaps in electronics and electro-optical materials essential for achieving DOD goals in air platforms and missiles.  Key smart weapons and air platforms hardware technologies are strongly dependent on a strong research base in electronics and electro-optical and electro-magnetic materials including integrated optics, fiber optics, detector materials, window materials optoelectronic devices, integrated microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits and others.

POTENTIAL TOPICS:

•	Computational Design and Predictive          			
	Properties of Materials
•	Characterization of Electro-Magnetic 			
	Properties of Materials
•	High Temperature Superconducting 
	Materials
•	Tunable Optical Polymers and 
	Holographic Materials
•	Uncooled Infrared Detector Materials
•	Electro-Magnetic Window Materials
•	Photonic Bandgap Materials
•	Indium Phosphide and Gallium Arsenide 			
	Technology
•	Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics Materials
•	Materials Issues in MEMS and MOEMS
•	Progress in Mercury Cadmium Telluride
•	Device Hardening Technology

ATTENDANCE:

The Workshop is open to industry, academia, and government.

One session of the workshop may be classified SECRET.  Further information will be available regarding this issue.  The remainder of this workshop will be UNCLASSIFIED.  However, attendance is restricted.

The workshop is open to U.S. citizens and non-citizens who are approved by the Department of Defense.  Persons who are not citizens of the U.S. or represent a foreign entity must make a formal request to attend the workshop through their embassy sixty days in advance for approval by the Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence.

ALL U.S. CITIZENS MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP AT WORKSHOP.  THIS MEANS THAT YOU MUST BRING YOUR PASSPORT, CERTIFIED BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION.  THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS REQUIREMENT.  

All Government employees must present their Government picture ID badge.  Each non-Government person planning to attend the workshop must present a photo ID and a copy of a properly executed DoD Form 2345, "Export Controlled Technical Data Agreement" authorizing their organization access to expert controlled material.  Those unfamiliar with the procedure of DoD 2345 may contact the Defense Logistics Services Center (DLSC) at 1-800-352-3572 for assistance.

ABSTRACTS:

Prospective speakers must submit UNCLASSIFIED abstracts of approximately 300 words.  Abstracts must include the title, author(s), complete return address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address.  Authors should state potential applications, if applicable, and indicate which of the topic areas listed categorize their abstracts.

The abstracts must be received no later than June 11, 1999.  Authors will be notified of paper acceptance no later than July 2, 1999.  A final presentation must be provided for inclusion into the final proceedings no later than September 24, 1999.

Please e-mail your abstracts to:

STARLING-SL@redstone.army.mil

or mail an electronic version of your abstract to:

Workshop on Electronic, Electro-Optical, Photonic, and Electro-Magnetic Materials
Attn:  Sherry Starling
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Research Institute, E-47
Huntsville, AL   35899

ADMINISTRATION:

The overall administration of the workshop, including registration, is being provided by the University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems Management and Production Laboratory.   

Registration information will be available in June, 1999.  You may contact the Electronic, Photonic, Electro-Optical, and Electro-Magnetics Materials Workshop Telephone Hotline at:  (256) 890-6343 ext.234; or the workshop's Website at:  
http://smaplab.ri.uah.edu/EPEE/     

SPONSORS:

•	U.S. Army Research Office
•	U.S. Army Research Laboratory
•	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
•	U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
•	U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command
•	Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center
•	CECOM-Night Vision and Electronic 
	Sensors Directorate
•	National Institute of Standards and Technology