Conference chairs Francisco YUBEROInstitute of Materials Science of Seville. National Research Council, Spain Irene PALACIOInstitute of Materials Science of Madrid. National Research Council, Spain International Program Committee (IPC) Miguel MansoUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Gonzalo SantoroIEM-CSIC, Spain Raquel CaballeroUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Juan Ramón SánchezICMS-CSIC, Spain Joel Borges*Universidade do Minho, Portugal Attila Csik*Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungary Diederik Depla*Ghent University, Belgium Silvia M. Deambrosis *ICMATE-CNR, Italy Jean-François Pierson *Université de Lorraine, France Ivan Petrov *University of Illinois, USA Feng Pan*Tsinghua University, China Catherine Joy M. de la Cruz *University of Philippines, Philippines Miha Čekada *Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Anna Maria Coclite *Graz University of Technology, Austria Chang-Lyoul Lee *Advanced Photonics Research Institute, South Korea Regina Paszkiewicz *Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Siamak Nejati *University of Nebraska USA Karyn Jarvis *Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Kostas SarakinosUniversity of Helsinki, Finland M Carmen López-SantosUniversity of Seville, Spain Ramón EscobarUniversity of Sevilla, Spain Anna RegoutzUniversity Colleague London, UK Pedro AlpuimINL, Portugal Giovanni PellegriniUniversity of Padova, Italy Andreas BorgschulteEMPA, Switzeland Marco Finazzi Politecnico de Milano, Italy Roman NevshupaIETcc-CSIC, Spain Irene PalacioICMM-CSIC, Spain Arantzazu Mascaraque UCM, Spain Javier BarrigaTekniker, Spain Andreas ThissenSPECS, Germany Adrián Durán University of Navarra, Spain * National Thin Film Division representative in IUVSTA Local Organizing Committee (LOC) Miguel MansoUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Carlos BrionesCSIC-INTA, Spain Ramón EscobarUSE, Spain Javier BarrigaTEKNIKER, Spain Jorge Gil-RostraICMS-CSIC, Spain Laia LeónICMM-CSIC, Spain Tomás TorrobaUBU, Spain Aránzazu HerasUBU, Spain Carlos J. TavaresUniv Minho, Portugal Ana C SilvaUniv Nova de Lisboa, Portugal