Support for Student Participation in the International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication; Rio Grande, Puerto Rico; May 29 to June 1, 2018

该奖项是对将于2018年5月29日至6月1日在波多黎各的格兰德河举行的电子，离子和光子束技术和纳米纤维国际会议（EIPBN）的部分支持。会议包括演讲，自由交流思想，以及国际参与者，学术界，行业领袖和政府利益相关者之间的广泛讨论和互动。该论坛有助于在包括纳米技术和纳米制造在内的许多科学领域产生和孵化突破性和变革性的想法。该奖项将部分支持初级参与者的参与，包括研究生，博士后研究员和早期职业教师。将鼓励来自波多黎各的学生和教师参加会议。EIPBN是一个重要的国际会议，将为讨论定向能合成、制造、成像、测量和表征小尺度结构、多层器件和多尺度系统的最新发展提供一个单一的论坛。该领域的主要研究人员，开发人员和用户的定期会议对于交流想法，信息和最先进的技术是必要的，以实现和加速纳米图案化和纳米制造的进步和突破。这一国际会议是将基础科学与工程学联系起来的关键机制，有助于开发对美国和世界经济具有重要意义的有用的纳米产品。本次会议为公开交流新的和以前未发表的科学研究和想法提供了一个论坛。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is for the partial support of the International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) to be held May 29 to June 1, 2018, in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. The conference includes presentations, free exchange of ideas, and extended discussions and interactions among international participants, academics, industry leaders and government stakeholders. This forum is instrumental in the generation and incubation of breakthrough and transformative ideas in many scientific areas including nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing. This award will partially support the participation of junior participants, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty members. Students and faculty from Puerto Rico will be encouraged to attend the conference. NSF funds will support the attendance at the conference of a total of 36 students.EIPBN is a major international meeting and will provide a single forum for discussion of the latest developments in directed energy-enabled synthesis, fabrication, imaging, measurement and characterization of small-scale structures, multi-layered devices and multi-scale systems. Regular meetings of the key researchers, developers and users in this field are necessary for the exchange of ideas, information, and state-of-the-art technologies, to enable and accelerate advances and breakthroughs in nanopatterning and nanomanufacturing. This international conference is a key mechanism for linking basic science with engineering towards the development of useful nano-enabled products, which are significant to the US and world economies. This conference offers a forum for the open exchange of new and previously unpublished scientific research and ideas.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.