Posters - MINATEC 2003 - International micro and nanotechnology meeting

The third edition of the International Micro and Nanotechnology Meeting for research and industry, MINATEC 2003, will be held in Grenoble from 22 to 26 September 2003 at the Alpes Congrès exhibition and congress centre.
MINATEC 2003 will enable researchers and industry, from France, Europe and all over the world, to present the state of the art and outlook for two high potential application sectors: microtechnologies for biology and healthcare; and embedded microsystems.
The programme has been decided by representatives of the micro and nanotechnology networks which partnered the original edition of the event in 2001: French Micro and Nanotechnology Network (RMNT), CNRS, Club Nanotechnologie and ADEMIS, seconded by other representative organizations including CREMSI, CSEM, OMNT, and SITELESC.

The call for posters addressed to you by the MINATEC 2003 Programme Committee will supplement the conferences scheduled to cover the following topics:
Nanomaterials, nanostructures and applications
Nanotechnologies
Nanoelectronics – Nanooptics – Molecular electronics.
Micro and nanotechnologies for electronics and signal processing
Micro and nanotechnologies for biology and the environment
Biochips – Microlaboratories on chips…
MEMS / MOEMS – Wireless Microsystems
Microsystems for telecommunications
Microsensors – Micromotors
Innovative mass storage technologies...
Micromachines

Although posters are intended to illustrate one of the scheduled talks they will be on show for the whole of MINATEC 2003.
On the Thursday (25 September) the author of the best poster will be awarded a prize for the best MINATEC 2003 poster.

To contribute actively to the meeting and propose a poster please fill in the preregistration form (see link below), print it and fax it back to us, with the poster abstract form, before 2 June 2003.

Poster selection: a poster selection jury will convene and you will be informed in person as to whether or not your proposal has been accepted.

Caution
All the information contained in posters will be published. The posters will be posted on the Minatec web site at the end of the 2003 meeting. By producing and submitting posters to MINATEC 2003, authors agree to the publication of all the information they contain.

Objectives
Whether authors work in industry or research, their posters must enable those attending the meeting to understand and remember either the innovative qualities, the merits for application or the economic value of the work presented.
To ensure posters are eye-catching, authors should pay particular attention, from the outset, to three points: title, applications and know-how.
For each block of information your exposition must be didactic, concise and extremely clear.
The methodology described below should enable you to design your poster directly on a computer in line with the expectations of researchers and business people, without bothering with material problems linked to page layout or printing.

Technical resources
Experience shows that the software most commonly used to produce and present posters is Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt on Macintosh or PC). You should therefore use this software to produce your poster for MINATEC 2003.
Send the file by email and the MINATEC 2003 team will print it on A0 paper.
Download the basic template for producing your poster (maquette.ppt - 136 kB).

Instructions on poster design
Layout
The A4 format should be used.
Please choose conventional fonts such as Times, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, etc.
Leave a margin of at least 1 cm all round.
The document should be presented with:
- a top strip containing, at the same height, the MINATEC logo separated from the title (upper case, 18-pts, 2 lines at the most)
- a bottom strip containing the full details of the author(s) and any relevant university and industrial partnerships (including logos).This strip should not be more than 3.5 cm high.
Information blocks
Applications: catch the audience's attention immediately by clearly identifying the application fields for your work.
Innovation and strong points: explain, concisely and didactically, what is original about your work: highlight the characteristics of the product or process and/or underline the prospects for your research.
Technological processes: clearly outline the various manufacturing stages involved and the principles underpinning the technology.
Basic principle: describe operation of the product or process as you have imagined and designed it and/or illustrate it with a diagram.
State of the art – Production: provide the key results of your research and any measurements (graphs, photographs, etc.)
Know-how: make the most of your presentation by promoting your team's skills. They may interest a company for other applications or projects. Always quote methods, techniques and characterization resources.
Illustrations: all pictures must be in BMP, TIFF, PICT or EPS format, scanned at low resolution (72-dpi).

SCHEDULE

2 June 2003: Preregistration and summary description of poster.
30 June 2003: Notification of acceptance for authors of selected posters.
22 August 2003: Final reception of posters in the form of computer files (see Recommendations above).

PREREGISTRATION Register on this page	POSTER ABSTRACT FORM Register on this page
Please complete and return the Preregistration and Poster Abstract forms before 2 June 2003.

TRANSMISSION OF FILES

Deadline for reception of files: 22 August 2003
Using the author-organization.ppt file you send by email we shall print out the poster in A0 format (1.20 x 0.84 m ).