The purpose of this Workshop is to bring together the university, industry, and governmental communities that work with II-VI materials. These II-VI materials are critical in a wide range of detector technologies including those operating in the IR, UV, x-ray, and gamma-ray regions of the spectrum. They include HgCdTe, ZnSe, ZnO, and CdTe, as well as other semiconductors and alloys. Spectrometers, imagers, and other sophisticated systems exploiting various properties of these materials are finding applications in many fields including national & Homeland security, medicine, industrial process monitoring, basic science, and more. The Workshop aims at advancing the understanding of the basic physics and chemistry of these materials and thereby contribute to the continual improvement of these system capabilities.

Areas covered include a broad range of disciplines and materials properties. Included are materials growth and characterization, materials engineering, intrinsic and extrinsic defects and dopants, surface chemistry, fabrication processes, electrical properties and modeling, charge transport, noise sources, optical properties, photorefraction, electro--optic and magneto--optical properties, as well as interaction among all these.

The Workshop program will consist of about 60 oral presentations. Invited and contributed papers with a common theme will be grouped for presentation.

To provide ample time for discussion, scheduled morning and afternoon breaks, as well as lunch, can be used as additional discussion time. To further promote informal discussion and interaction, the first two days will conclude with a wine and cheese reception accompanied by table-top displays from commercial vendors displaying products and services of interest to the community.

Authors of accepted papers are required to submit full-length manuscripts, which will be peer reviewed and published in a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Materials.

Student participation is strongly encouraged. Two awards recognizing the best student paper will be presented at the conclusion of the Workshop. Funding exists to support travel to the Workshop. Some student financial assistance is available for conference attendees.

This year’s Keynote Address, "It’s Too Early to Quit!: Today’s Success Is Not Sufficient to Fulfill Tomorrow’s Requirements," will be presented by Ms. Lyn E. Brown and Dr. Alan Hahn, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

• Defects
  - Materials and Physics of Failure
  - Non-Destructive Characterization
• Multiband Detector Development
• Near-Room-Temperature IR Devices
• HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiodes
• ZnO Materials and Devices
• II-VI-Based Solar Cells
• Radiation Detectors
• Alternative CdTe Substrates
• Radiation Effects in HgCdTe