Fifth International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference, Vienna, Austria, (July 13-17, 1992) Travel Support for Former Soviet Union Scientists

这笔经费用于资助前苏联科学家参加1992年7月13日至15日在奥地利维也纳举行的第五届国际真空微电子会议。真空微电子会议提供了一个集中的科学论坛来解决这个相对较新的和新兴的技术领域的研究课题。会议的范围包括基础理论和实验物理学的主题，如三维纳米结构中的非平衡电子传输，通过绝缘体、金属和半导体的薄表面层的量子力学隧道，以及表面隧道的理论描述。它还包括层状材料的场发射物理和纳米结构的制造和加工物理，以及微加工的物理和化学。多年来，来自前苏联的科学家一直是这一领域的领导者，考虑到他们在创造力、技术价值和科学意义方面对该领域的贡献，他们的参与被认为是会议成功的关键。然而，最近发生在FSU的事件使他们的研究所甚至没有资源为他们的主要研究人员提供参加会议的旅费。考虑到FSU动荡的经济形势，以及我们希望与这些国家的优质科学团体建立更密切的联系，在这个时候，向NSF提出提供旅费的要求是非常合适的。国家科学基金会申请的资金将由国际委员会根据该提案所附的最多20名科学家的优先名单进行分配。

This grant is for travel support for scientists from the former Soviet Union to attend the Fifth International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference, in Vienna, Austria, July 13-15, 1992. The Vacuum Microelectronics Conference provides a focused scientific forum to address research topics in this relatively new and emerging technological field. The scope of the conference includes fundamental theoretical and experimental physics in such topics as non-equilibrium electron transport in 3-D nanostructures, quantum mechanical tunneling through thin surface layers of insulators, metals, and semiconductors, and theoretical descriptions of surface tunneling. It also includes the physics of field emission from layered materials and fabrication and processing physics of nanostructures, and the physics and chemistry of micromachining. For a number of years, scientists from the former Soviet Union have been leaders in this field, and their participation is considered to be central to the success of the conference, considering their contributions to the field with respect to creativity, technical merit, and scientific significance. However, the recent events in the FSU have left their institutes without resources to provide travel to the conference even for their leading researchers. The request to NSF to provide travel funds to bring many of these leading scientists to the meeting is highly appropriate at this time, given the turbulent economic situation in the FSU and our desire to foster closer contact with quality scientific groups in these countries. The funds requested of NSF will be dispersed by the International Committee based on a priority listing of up to 20 scientists attached to this proposal.