Transparent Oxides and Related Materials for Electronics and Optics

Abstract

The International Symposium on Transparent Oxide Thin Films for Electronics and Optics (TOEO) has been held every two years since 1997. The 10th TOEO conference (TOEO-10), whose name was changed to The International Symposium on Transparent Oxide and Related Materials for Electronics and Optics so as to include recent related material from TOEO-8, was held July 3–5, 2017, at International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. This conference was very successful and included 105 participants. The TOEO sessions had one special panel discussion on “Energy, the global challenge”, 22 invited talks, 6 contributed oral papers, and 34 poster presentations. We are pleased to publish this special issue of Physica Status Solidi (a). The highest-quality papers were selected through on-site review at the conference and by the standard peer-review process following the criteria of the journal. We expect that this volume will promote the research on transparent oxide materials. The organizers thank Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the 166th Committee, for continued support. Sincerely, Toshio Kamiya As a representative of the Guest Editors David Ginley (NREL, USA) Claes G. Granqvist (Uppsala Univ., Sweden) Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Tech, Japan) Toshio Kamiya (Tokyo Tech, Japan) George Kiriakidis (Univ. Crete, Greece)