International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators
Radiation Effects in Insulators is a long-running international conference series
dedicated to basic and applied scientific research relating to radiation effects in insulators and non-metallic materials. It is held every second year in locations around the world.
The REI conference has a long history. Since the first conference was held in 1981, REI has been the international forum to present and discuss the latest achievements in the field of insulating materials modification through different kind of radiation. The conference regularly attracts about 200 attendees.
Topics covered
The REI conference covers a wide range of topics including the following.Atomistic and Collective Processes of Radiation Effects
- Fundamental knowledge on atomistic and electronic defect production and stability
- Irradiation-induced microstructural evolution and material modifications
- Fundamentals, theory and computer simulations
- Advances in defect and material characterization
- Radiation response of nanomaterials
- Swift heavy ion irradiations
- Neutron irradiations
- Laser-solid interactions
- Electron-solid interactions
Irradiated Materials
- Simple and complex oxides
- Carbides and nitrides
- Polymers
- Ionic crystals
- Semiconductor and scintillator materials
- Glasses and silica
- Carbon-based materials
- Nanocomposites and nanostructured materials
Applications
- Nuclear materials: fission, fusion and waste forms
- Functional nanocomposites
- Photonic, bio-medicine and sensing materials
- Micro- and nano-patterning
- Materials processing with swift heavy ions and cluster beams
Proceedings
The proceedings of REI-1 and REI-3 were published in the peer-reviewed journal Radiation Effects, renamed Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids in 1989. The proceedings of REI-1 are found in volume 64 and volume 65 of this journal. The proceedings of REI-3 are found in volume 97, volume 98, and volume 99 of this journal.The proceedings of REI-2 and every REI conference since REI-4 have been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B. These REI proceedings can be found in the following volumes of this journal: REI-2, REI-4, REI-5, REI-6, REI-7, REI-8, REI-9, REI-10, REI-11, REI-12, REI-13, REI-14, REI-15, REI-16, REI-17, REI-18 and REI-19. The proceedings of and following conferences are reported in special issue collections of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B.
REI conferences held
The complete list of REI conferences held up to 2025 is as follows.The chairman for REI-1 is taken from the Foreword to the REI-1 proceedings. The chairmen for the conferences from 1983 to 2009 are taken from the list of proceedings editors in
| Conference | Year | Location | Chairpersons | Invited speakers |
| REI-1 | 1981 | Arco, Italy | Paolo Mazzoldi | B. Henderson, W. B. Fowler, Noriaki Itoh, G. Littmark, Kurt Roessler, Paul Thevenard, Hj. Matzke, Roger Kelly, D. Fink, J. P. Biersack |
| REI-2 | 1983 | Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | George W. Arnold, James A. Borders | J. H. Crawford, B. R. Appleton, Paul Thevenard, Walter L. Brown, Ian H. Wilson, P. Pellas, W. A. Sibley, A. Manara, William J. Weber, M. C. Wintersgill |
| REI-3 | 1985 | Guildford, UK | Ian H. Wilson, Jeffrey Belson | A. Marshall Stoneham, A. E. Hughes, R. Collins, Paolo Mazzoldi, Walter Brown, Gerhard Götz, Noriaki Itoh, Kurt Rössler, D. E. Harrison, Roger Kelly, J. P. Thomas, F. R. Krueger, J. Michl, K. Wien |
| REI-4 | 1987 | Lyon, France | Paul Thevenard, Alain Perez | Walter L. Brown, C. W. White, Adolphe Chapiro, W. A. Sibley, Arthur H. Edwards, J. P Duraud, Richard F. Haglund, Jr., S. Della-Negra, Marcel Toulemonde, G. J. Clark, L. J. Lanzerotti, Hj. Matzke, William J. Weber, A. C. Marples, Rodney C. Ewing |
| REI-5 | 1989 | Hamilton, Canada | John A. Davies, David A. Thompson | Roger Smith, Don M. Parkin, W. Johnson, C. Richard A. Catlow, Carl J. McHargue, K. Tanimura, P. Kelly, R. A. Divine, Harry Bernas, Giovanni Marletta, J. Guillet, Gerhard K. Wolf, G. Hubler, M. Szymonski |
| REI-6 | 1991 | Weimar, Germany | Gerhard Götz | D. Ehrt, J. Biersack, H. D. Geiler, Noriaki Itoh, Gerhard Wolf, Ian Boyd, U. Jäger, N. Gerasimenko, H. J. Kreuzer, K. Wien, E. E. Baglin, Alain Perez, Paul Thevenard, Peter Townsend, Paolo Mazzoldi, F. Studer, L. Calgagno, Richard T. Williams, Charles Barbour, O. Meyer, K Gamo, Hj. Matzke, Kurt Rössler |
| REI-7 | 1993 | Nagoya, Japan | Noriaki Itoh, Katsumi Tanimura | A. Marshall Stoneham, Richard T. Williams, Eugene Kotomin, Marcel Toulemonde, Rodney C. Ewing, Linn W. Hobbs, J.-M. Spaeth, Lloyd L. Chase, A. B. Devine, Steven J. Zinkle, M. Ikeya, Giovanni Marletta, G. Zimmerer, Paolo Mazzoldi, Richard F. Haglund, Jr., Carl. J. McHargue, Kurt Roessler, T. Sekine |
| REI-8 | 1995 | Catania, Italy | Gaetano Foti, Orazio Puglisi | Walter L. Brown, A. Perez, Linn W. Hobbs, K. Tanimura, F. Priolo, Kurt E. Sickafus, E. Parilis, Steven J. Zinkle, Werner Wesch, Y. Kucherenko, G. Battaglin, C. N. Afonso |
| REI-9 | 1997 | Knoxville, Tennessee, USA | Carl J. McHargue, William J. Weber | Eugene Kotomin, Elke Wendler, C. W. White, Lumin Wang, Hideo Hosono, Jean-Claude Pivin, Anthony J. Pedraza, Annie Dunlop |
| REI-10 | 1999 | Jena, Germany | Werner Wesch, Gerhard K. Wolf | Alexander L. Shluger, William J. Weber, Trevor E. Derry, M. Hasegawa, Aleksandr Lushchik, Dorothee M. Rück, Eleanor E.B. Campbell, Gerhard K. Wolf, Cristoph Buchal, Barrett B. Potter, Francesco Gonella, Marcel Toulemonde |
| REI-11 | 2001 | Lisbon, Portugal | Eduardo Alves, Carl J. McHargue | Paolo M. Ossi, Aleksandr Lushchik, Karl-Heinz Heining, Harry Bernas, Fei Gao, Hideo Hosono, Giovanni Mattei, Kurt E. Sickafus, Eric R. Hodgson, Albert Polman, Roberto Benson, Joel Davenas |
| REI-12 | 2003 | Gramado, Brazil | Livio Amaral, Moni Behar, Fernando C. Zawislak | Carl J. McHargue, Kai Nordlund, Peter Sigmund, Wolfgang Bolse, A. Ibarra, Chiken Kinoshita, L. Rene Corrales, Linards Skuja, Koichi Kajihara, Siegfried Kalbitzer, Siegfried Klaumünzer, Mark C. Ridgway, Christina Trautmann, Giovanni Marletta, E. Balanzat, Chiara Maurizio, José Carvalho Soares, Marcel Toulemonde, Abdenacer Benyagoub |
| REI-13 | 2005 | Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA | Kurt E. Sickafus, William J. Weber, Blas P. Uberuaga | Alain Chartier, Jean-Marc Delaye, David Simeone, Igor O. Usov, Roberto González, Lance L. Snead, Lionel Thomé, Jie Lian, Ulrich A. Glasmacher, Sergei O. Kucheyev, Manabu Ishimaru, Aleksandr Lushchik |
| REI-14 | 2007 | Caen, France | Emmanuel Balanzat, Lionel Thomé, Marcel Toulemonde, Patrick Trocellier | Yanwen Zhang, Chris R. Stanek, D. Kanjilal, Eugene Kotomin, Kazuhiro Yasuda, R. Baragiola, A. Quaranta, F. Aumayr, Mark C. Ridgway, J. Jensen, Siegfried Klaumünzer, Alex Shluger, B. Thomas, Maik Lang, Frederico Garrido, G. Baldinozzi |
| REI-15 | 2009 | Padova, Italy | Giovanni Mattei, Paolo Mazzoldi, Giancarlo Battaglin | Paolo Mazzoldi, Ram Devanathan, Maik Lang, R. Brusa, Marcel Toulemonde, Patrick Kluth, F. Chen, Harry Bernas, D. K. Avasthi, N. Kishimoto, Frédérico Garrido |
| REI-16 | 2011 | Beijing, China | Yugang Wang, Yanwen Zhang, William J. Weber | Richard Catlow, Aleksandr Lushchik, Flyura Djurabekova, Linards Skuja, Peter D. Townsend, Jie Liu, Steven J. Zinkle, Lumin Wang |
| REI-17 | 2013 | Helsinki, Finland | Kai Nordlund, Flyura Djurabekova, Jyrki Räisänen, Timo Sajavaara | Jan Meijer, Ricardo Papaléo, Jose Olivares, Olli Pakarinen, Patrick Kluth, Marika Schleberger, Orazio Puglisi, Izabela Szlufarska, Yugang Wang, Jiro Matsuo, Kostya Trachenko, Aurelien Debelle, Shengqiang Zhou, Giancarlo Rizza |
| REI-18 | 2015 | Jaipur, India | Devesh K. Avasthi | Siegfried Klaumünzer, Clara Grygiel, Hiroshi Amekura, Ritesh Sachan, Vladimir A. Skuratov, Alain Claverie, Nadège Ollier, Jörg Schreiber, Olivier Plantevin, Stephanie Pellegrino, Satyabrata Mohaptra, Tiziana Cesca, Tapobrata Som, Akihiro Iwase |
| REI-19 | 2017 | Versailles, France | Gael Sattonnay, Aurélie Gentils, Jean-Paul Crocombette, Nadége Ollier | Jacek Jagielski, Cameron Tracy, Wolfgang Bolse, Maria Eugenia Toimil Molares, Jacques O'Connell, Ambuj Tripathi, Katharina Lorenz, Andreas Wucher, Patrick Simon, Tetsuya Yamaki, Feng Chen, Samuel Murphy, A. I. Popov, Sandrine Miro |
| REI-20 | 2019 | Astana, Kazakhstan | Vladimir Skuratov, Alma Dauletbekova | Helmut Schober, Aleksandr Lushchik, Isabelle Monnet, Miguel Crespillo, Andrej Kuznetsov, Sergii B. Ubizskii, Vladimir Pankratov, Feng Liu, Theo Andreas Scherer, Yaroslav Zhydachevskyy, Go Okada, Kai Nordlund, Ruslan Rymzhanov, Lars Breuer |
| REI-21 | 2023 | Fukuoka, Japan | Kazuhiro Yasuda, Norito Ishikawa | Flyura Djurabekova, Aurelie Gentils, Marat Khafizov, Pawan Kulriya, Shinobu Onoda, Marco Peres, Maria Eugenia Toimil-Molares, Chenxu Wang, Shankar Dutt, David Hurley, Enrico Nichelatti, Vladimir Pankratov, Mamour Sall, Gihan Velisa |
| REI-22 | 2025 | Madrid, Spain | José Olivares, Gastón García, Ovidio Peña | Alexander Shluger, Aleksandr Lushchik, Alicja Domaracka, Antonio Rivera, Eduardo Bringa, Eric C. O’Quinn, Ina Schubert, Joseph Graham, Junlei Zhao, Katharina Lorenz, Manabu Ishimaru, Mikhail Brik, Parswajit Kalita, Kazuhiro Yasuda |