Radiation Effects in Insulators (REI) 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 (ions, electrons, neutrons, etc). 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 (1981) and REI-3 (1985) 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 [issues 1-4] and volume 65 [issues 1-4] of this journal. The proceedings of REI-3 are found in volume 97 [issues 3-4], volume 98 [issues 1-4], and volume 99 [issues 1-4] of this journal.

The proceedings of REI-2 (1983) and every REI conference since REI-4 (1987) have been published in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B. These REI proceedings can be found in the following volumes of this journal: REI-2 (vol. 1), REI-4 (vol. 32), REI-5 (vol. 46), REI-6 (vol. 65), REI-7 (vol. 91), REI-8 (vol. 116), REI-9 (vol.141), REI-10 (vol. 166-167), REI-11 (vol. 191), REI-12 (vol. 218), REI-13 (vol. 250), REI-14 (vol. 266), REI-15 (vol. 268), REI-16 (vol. 286), REI-17 (vol. 326), REI-18 (vol. 379) and REI-19 (vol. 435). The proceedings of REI-20 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

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