About EIPBN

The EIPBN Conference is recognized as the foremost international meeting dedicated to lithographic science and technology and its application to micro and nanofabrication techniques. The conference brings together engineers and scientists from industries and universities from all over the world to discuss recent progress and future trends.

Meeting Format

The conference opens on Tuesday afternoon with a special commercial session, which features vendors of materials and equipment relevant to this conference. The plenary session is on Wednesday morning. The rest of the conference has three parallel sessions. The length of presentation is 40 minutes for invited papers and 20 minutes for contributed papers, discussion time included.
A special feature of the technical program is the poster session that includes invited and contributed papers. There is only one formal poster session, but posters will be displayed for informal viewing throughout the entire conference. No distinction is made between the importance of poster and oral presentations.

Click here for more on the conference program.

Technical Program

The Technical Program is organized by the Program Chair and assisted by volunteers that compromise the Technical Section Head panel. Over a 140 experts in the different fields of nanofabrication lend their time and expertise to suggest invited speakers, review abstracts and review manuscripts.  Any researcher can be part of the Technical Section Head panel. Contact the Program Chair for information. By renewing the members of this panel the EIPBN Community is kept vibrant and up-to-date with all the recent advances in nanofabrication technology.

History of EIPBN

We are pleased to feature the following paper on the history of the EIPBN conference:

History of the “Three Beams” Conference, the Birth of the Information Age and the Era of Lithography Wars
by Mark L. Schattenburg, Space Nanotechnology Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Click here to download the paper in PDF Format.

Another item of historical interest is Richard Feynman’s 1959 lecture,
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.”
Click here to read a transcript.

For a listing of all previous EIPBN conference locations,
Click here.

Related Conferences

Conferences on similar topics are held in the Fall in Europe (MNE) and in Japan (MNC).
For more information, please visit our page on these  “sister conferences” by clicking here.

Student Support

Limited funds are available to support student travel. The Conference Chair must receive a request for support from the student’s advisor by May 1. Decisions about student support will be returned by about May 15. For more on the Student support, click here.