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Abstract

Ion Beam Processing and Modification of Glasses and Ceramics was held as one of the symposia in Advanced Materials Synthesis and Processing Technology session, 104th American Ceramic Society Meeting in St. Louis from April 28 to May 1, 2002. Three divisions of American Ceramic Society (Basic Sciences, Glass and Optical Materials, and Nuclear and Environmental Technology Divisions) and Thermionics NW, Inc. jointly sponsored the symposium. This one and a half day symposium brought together several scientists from many di.erent parts of the globe to exchange ideas and share common activities in this .eld. The application of ion beams to the processing and modi.cation as well as characterization of materials has led to the evolvution of highly versatile characterization and processing techniques for a wide-ranging utilization in many .elds. The symposium featured the following focused sessions: (1) Ion Beam Analysis of Ceramics and Glasses, (2) Ion Beam Processing of Glasses and (3) Ion Beam Processing of Ceramics. Each of this focused sessions had two invited speakers and 4–6 contributed speakers. In addition, a poster session was organized to accommodate the papers, which could not be presented due to the time limitation of the symposium. About half of the presenters contributed manuscripts to the Proceedings. This special issue of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B contains the proceedings of this symposium. It is our pleasure to acknowledge the contributing authors for the preparation of the manuscripts and for their prompt response to our urgent messages. We also thank all of our reviewers for their timely conscientious and critical reviewing of the manuscripts. Timely responses and support from the authors and reviewers have enabled the publication of the Proceedings as scheduled. We are indebted to our sponsors, the American Ceramics Society and Thermionics NW, Inc., without whose support the symposium could not have been organized.