Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials

It is our pleasure to publish the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials (IBMM 2008), which was held at the Lecture Hall Centre of the Technische Universität at Dresden, Germany, from August 31 to September 5, 2008, under the common organization by the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany and the Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung, Leipzig, Germany.
The biannual IBMM International Conference Series looks back on a 30-years history starting in 1978, being considered as the major international forum to present and discuss recent results in ion-related materials research and to point into the future of the field. It assembles physicists, chemists, material scientists and engineers from all over the world and along the whole chain from basic research to industrial production.