Preface

Abstract

The first joint PIXE and IBA conference was due to take place in Toyama, Japan during October 2021. Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic it was decided to hold this meeting virtually and come back to Toyama in 2023 when, we all hope, travel will become a little easier again. Similarly, the 23rd International Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Conference (SIMS23) was due to be held in Minneapolis, USA in September 2021 and was postponed to September 2022.The Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) conference has a long history starting in 1973 in June at the IBM Research Labs in Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. The Particle Induced X-Ray (PIXE) conference also has a long history also dating back to the 1970s (it was then the International Conference on Particle Induced X-ray Emission and its Analytical Applications). It was reconfigured in 2010 and the name shortened to just PIXE. Both conferences are now biennial meetings. The previous PIXE meeting was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2019 and the previous IBA meeting was held in Antibes, France in October 2019. The SIMS conference series started in 1977 in Munster, Germany and has run biennially since then until this year. The 22nd meeting took place in Kyoto, Japan.Traditionally the IBA conference deals with the science, development, techniques and applications of energetic ion beams for analysis. This has, over the years, become focused on the application of MeV ion beams, their transport and interaction with surfaces and their application on materials analysis with techniques such as RBS, PIXE, NRA, ERD, IBIC, IBIL and MeV-SIMS. The PIXE conference, on the other hand has often focused on a specific theme for each meeting – the previous meeting’s theme was “Unravelling secrets from atoms to planets” and aimed to emphasize the expanding multi-scale scope of the technique, supported by recent developments. The SIMS conference series provides a forum for the exchange of results and new ideas on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and related techniques.List of Organising committee, Co-chairs of joint conference IBA/PIXE&SIMS, Virtual scientific committee, IBA committee, PIXE committee, SIMS International Committee, SIMS International Scientific Committee are available in this Pdf.