The International Workshop on Carbon Materials, held in Jülich on the 3rd and 4th of September 1998, was the eighth meeting in the series designed to highlight the progress in research and development of carbon-based materials for plasma facing components in controlled fusion devices. This time, the Workshop was held as a satellite meeting prior to the 20th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) in Marseille. The symposium, which was partly sponsored and excellently organised by the Forschungszentrum Jülich, gathered more than 70 registered participants from Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland. The scientists represented several leading plasma physics, fusion-related materials research laboratories and industrial companies involved in development of plasma facing materials.
The scientific programme consisted of three major topics: erosion and deposition phenomena, high heat flux testing and neutron irradiation effects in materials. The programme included 14 invited talks and 14 posters. Ample time was reserved for discussions and `hot' topic contributions. The authors presented both an overview and detailed aspects of these vigorously developing interdisciplinary fields of science and technology. The most important aim and outcome of this very interactive meeting was to define and plan future activities to solve specific problems and to clarify many issues concerning the properties and behaviour of materials under high particle fluxes.
On behalf of the Programme Committee I would like to thank all the participants and organisers for their important contributions which made the workshop fruitful, interesting and pleasant.
Programme Committee
H Bolt (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
J Linke (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
V Philipps (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
J Roth (IPP Garching)
M Rubel (KTH Stockholm)
G Vieider (NET Garching)