INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to ICQNM 2012.

The submission deadline is set to April 20, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ICQNM 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICQNM 2012: The Sixth International Conference on Quantum, Nano and
Micro Technologies
August 19-24, 2012 - Rome, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICQNM12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICQNM12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICQNM12.html

Submission deadline: April 20, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICQNM 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

QTECH: Quantum technologies
   Quantum information; Quantum communication; Quantum computation;
Quantum teleportation; Quantum cryptography; Quantum key distribution;
Quantum communication infrastructure; Quantum entanglement; Quantum
simulation tools

QSEC: Quantum security
   Quantum cryptographic systems; Quantum key distribution primitives;
Security of QKD protocols; Privacy and authentication in QKD based
networks; Quantum Cryptographic error-correcting codes; Quantum
cheating; Attacking QKD devices; Quantum correlations; Current
limitations of QKD based communication; Reasoning about QKD security;
Security frameworks for QKD environments; QKD based networks security
vulnerabilities; Applications of QKD systems

NTECH: Nano technologies
   Nano materials and nanostructures; Nano devices and electronics;
Nano lithography and manufacturing; Nano fluidics and robotics; Nano
architectures and computation models; Reliability of nano devices,
circuits and systems; Modeling and simulation of nano devices; Design
methodologies and tools for nano circuits and systems; Nano tribometry;
Testing of nano circuits and systems; Nano tools; Integrated nano
systems; Standards

MTECH: Micro technologies
   Micro modeling and design; Micro fabricated sensors; Micro/Nano
fluidic devices; Biomolecular machines; Micro propulsion systems; Fuel
cells and energy storage devices; Fluidic and optical structures; Micro
materials and micro systems; System integration - macro/micro/nano
systems; Micro factory and micro assembly; Microscale control and micro
manipulation; Reliability of micro devices, circuits and systems
(microreliability, microsafety); Near-field microscopy; Instrumentation
micro systems (actuators, transducers, etc.); Non-destructive evaluation
(acoustic, thermal, etc.); Micro-instruments; Scanning probe microscopy

APPDOM: Application nano/micro domains
   Nano/micro materials (materials, 3-D microstructuring, nano/micro
scale thermal radiation); Nano medicine (drug delivery; Nano particles
i.e., viruses; proteins); Bio-nanostructures (nano-tubes,
nano-particles); Microsystems, micro fluidics (including nano-fluidics,
modeling; fabrication and application); Micro instrumentation /
implantable micro-devices (miniaturized bio-electronic systems etc.);
Micro imaging; Nano measurements (optical interference); Nano
biotechnology; Aerospace and automotive; Molecular manufacturing;
Nanotech networking event; Quantum Nano metrology; Defense and homeland
security; Energy saving and optimal consumption; Aerospace applications;
Data-storage techniques; Self-healing materials; Defense applications;
Safety; Environmental; Education&  training

MATERIALS: Nano and micro materials and properties
   Interconnect materials, technologies, and applications; Materials
and technologies for package-level thermal management; Nano films;
Porous and pin-fin surfaces; Electrospun polymer fibers; Polymer/Clay
nano composites; Optofluidics; Silicon nanowires; Wide band-gap
dielectrics; Mechanical and thermal properties; Specifics on evaporation
and condensation; Crystallization; Elasticity and performance; Adhesion
measurements

FLUIDICS: Microfluidics and nanofluidics
   Micro thermal technologies; Separation technologies; Detection
technologies (optical and electro chemical); Fluid mechanics and
modeling; Microfluidics (DNA, lab-on-a-chip, lithography, etc.);
Fluidics design and assembly; Hybrid devices, microfluidic packaging;
Digital microfluidics; Capillary electrophoresis; Microfluidic fuel
cells; Cell soring and handling; Single cell analysis; Polymeric
composites; Molecular dynamics; Multi-phase nanofluidics;
Nano-properties and magnetic fields; Magnetic nanofluids; Transport in
nanofluids

SUPER: Superconductivity, materials and applications
   Types of superconductivity; Superconductor classification;
Supercurrents and superconductors; d-wave superconductors;
Superconductor-ferromagnet bilayer structures; Spin screening effect in
superconductors; Antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations; Spin relaxation;
Thermal expansion; Doping and temperature dependence; Interlayer
spacing; Two-dimensional superfluid density; Band renormalization; Fermi
surface reconstruction; Specific heat oscillations; Superconducting
quantum interference; n-dimensional nanoscale patterns; Ferromagnet thin
film heterostructures; Superfluid film; Superfluid stiffness; Iron-based
superconductors; Anisotropic pressure derivatives

NBR: Nano and bio robotics
   Autonomous and teleoperated nano-manufacturing systems; Microscope
nano-probes, optical tweezers, and dielectrophoresis; Carbon nano-tubes
and biological objects (DNA, RNA, cell, tissue, etc.); Biologically
inspired miniature space robots and micro-/nano-systems; Nano-particles
and nano-wires; Micro-/nano-electromechanical systems; Performance
models of nano- and bio-robots; Dynamics and kinematics of bio-nano
robots; Molecular kinematics; Limitations of nano-robot colonies;
Nano-robots and nano-assembly; Nano-robots control design; Computational
nano-robotics; Nano-robotics simulation; Nano-robotics communications
techniques; Evolutionary nano-robots; Cellular robotics and micro/nano
robotics systems; Viral proteins motors; Protein-based nano-motors and
nano-robots; Biomolecular components interfaces (DNA joints and
carbon-nanotube rigid links); Nano-robots in nano-medicine; Surgical
micro-robots inside the human body; Nano-robotics and biomedical
applications; Medical nano-robots feasibility
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