Hasselt Diamond Workshop - SBDD

cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

March 4 - 6, 2026

The 30^th anniversary meeting of the international Hasselt Diamond Workshop continues the tradition of being the annual “early bird” venue for researchers to exchange the latest news on the progress in science and applications of CVD diamond. The meeting began in 1996 as a workshop for discussions about ‘Surface and Bulk Defects in Diamond’ (hence the acronym SBDD), and has since become known as one of the premier international conferences on diamond science and technology.

Through the yearly rotation of the Chair, each edition gets a clear signature programme based on the Chair's field of expertise. This year, the SBDD XXX programme is focussed on devices while also covering annually returning topics. This comprises the growth of high quality diamond material, including, doping, physics of colour centres and their properties, chemistry and physics of diamond surfaces, etc. Furthermore, use of these properties in high-power electronics, quantum devices, biomedical and bio-sensing applications, magnetic resonance, and many more will be discussed. Traditionally, SBDD XXX is aiming at providing a forum where fundamental as well as application driven viewpoints can be discussed at the highest level.

Chair: Julien Pernot, CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes-Institut Néel, France

For three full days, the SBDD XXIX programme is focussed on quantum aspects of diamond while also covering annually returning topics. This comprises the growth of high-quality diamond material, including, doping, physics of colour centres and their properties, chemistry and physics of diamond surfaces, etc. Furthermore, use of these properties in quantum devices, high-power electronics, biomedical and bio-sensing applications, magnetic resonance, and many more will be discussed. Traditionally, SBDD XXIX is aiming at providing a forum where fundamental as well as application driven viewpoints can be discussed at the highest level.

The meeting will start on Wednesday morning, March 19, 2025, and will end Friday afternoon, March 21, 2025. In these three full days, several invited talks will be given, covering different topics.

• High purity CVD diamond growth
• Doping and colour centre fabrication
• Defect spectroscopy and transport phenomena
• Nanodiamond particles
• Diamond-based electronics and power devices
• Quantum sensing and related technologies
• Biosensing and electrochemical innovations
• Radiation and particle detection technologies
• Surfaces and nanostructures
• Emerging frontiers in CVD diamond
• ...

Two poster sessions will be organised during the meeting. Panels will be provided to which the posters can be affixed with push pins or tape. Please bring fixing materials with you! The posters can be put up on Wednesday morning, and can remain there until Friday noon.

Dimensions

• Width: 95cm (max.)
• Height: 150cm (max.)

• Conference fee: €335
  
  This fee includes welcome & poster receptions, coffee breaks, and lunch during the three days of the conference.

• Student conference fee: €250
  
  This fee, intending to stimulate participation of master and PhD students, includes welcome & poster receptions, coffee breaks, and lunch during the three days of the conference.

• Conference dinner (optional): €80
  
  The conference dinner will take place from 20h on Thursday, March 20 in the centre of Hasselt. It's a 5-minute walk from the Express by Holiday Inn.
  
  In case of special dietary requirements, please contact the Conference Secretary.

Presenters: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 12:00 !!!

Participants: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00 !!!

An online registration form is available here.

The information that needs to be provided to receive your tickets, like name, institution, … will also be used to create your conference badge. Hence, pay attention when providing these details!

For more information and/or questions on late or on site registration, contact the Conference Secretary.

Payment

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SBDD XXIX will take place at the cultuurcentrum Hasselt, aka the ccHa. The cultuurcentrum Hasselt is situated in the centre of Hasselt, just outside the ring road, and can be easily reached on foot.

cultuurcentrum Hasselt

• Address: Kunstlaan 5, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium
• Tel: +32 11 229 933
• E-mail: info@ccha.be
• Web: www.ccha.be

Arrangements were made with the Express by Holiday Inn assuring a special rate for participants of our workshop.

The Express by Holiday Inn is fully booked!

In case of a fully booked hotel, please have a look here.

Holiday Inn Express

• Address: Thonissenlaan 37, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium
• Tel: +32 11 242 200
• E-mail: info@hihasselt.com
• Web: www.hiexpress.com/exhasselt

The Express by Holiday Inn is located in the center of Hasselt, very close to the railway station. Taxis are available in front of the railway station. Walking it takes about 10 minutes.

In the framework of the workshop, all oral and poster presenters have the opportunity to contribute to a Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology" that will be published in physica status solidi (a).

• Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 31, 2025.
• Oral as well as poster presenters are encouraged to submit a manuscript.
• To guarantee publication in physica status solidi (a) all papers will undergo a double peer-review by two independent referees.

All manuscripts need to be prepared using the templates of physica status solidi!

All manuscripts must be submitted online using the dedicated Editorial Manager website of physica status solidi (a): http://www.editorialmanager.com/pssa-journal. 

Submit your manuscript in the "Diamond Science and Technology - SBDD XXIX" section that can be chosen from the drop-down menu on the "Please Select Section/Category" tab!

The manuscript preparation guidelines and templates can be found at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/18626319/homepage/author-guidelines.

In case of questions or problems, please mail the Editorial Office at pss@wiley-vch.de.

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• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2023 - SBDD XXVII)
• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2022 - SBDD XXVI)
• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2020 - SBDD XXV)
• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2019 - SBDD XXIV)
• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2018 - SBDD XXIII)
• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2017 - SBDD XXII)
• Recent Advances in Diamond Science and Technology (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2016 - SBDD XXI)
• 20 Years of Science for Diamond (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2015 - SBDD XX)
• Recent Advances on Diamond Surfaces and Devices (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2014 - SBDD XIX)
• Fundamentals and Applications of Diamond and Nanocarbons (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2013 - SBDD XVIII)
• Fundamentals and Applications of Diamond (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2012 - SBDD XVII)
• Fundamentals and Applications of CVD Diamond (Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2011 - SBDD XVI)
• Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2010 - SBDD XV
• Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2009 - SBDD XIV
• Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2008 - SBDD XIII
• Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2007 - SBDD XII
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, XI - SBDD 2006
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, X - SBDD 2005
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, IX - SBDD 2004
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, VIII - SBDD 2003
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, VII - SBDD 2002
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, VI - SBDD 2001
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, V - SBDD 2000
• Surface and Bulk Defects in CVD Diamond Films, IV - SBDD 1999

• Quan Li (Chair SBDD XXIX), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, liquan@cuhk.edu.hk
• Ken Haenen, Hasselt University & IMEC vzw, Belgium, ken.haenen@uhasselt.be
• Miloš Nesládek, Hasselt University & IMEC vzw, Belgium, milos.nesladek@uhasselt.be
• Nora Colson (Conference Secretary), Hasselt University & IMEC vzw, Belgium, sbdd@uhasselt.be
• Jeroen Prooth (Conference Vice-Secretary), Hasselt University & IMEC vzw, Belgium, sbdd@uhasselt.be

• Jocelyn Achard, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
• Julien Barjon, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
• Christoph Becher, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
• Philippe Bergonzo, Seki Diamond Systems, USA
• Chia-Liang Cheng, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
• Ádám Gali, HAS-Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Etienne Gheeraert, CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes-Institut Néel, France 
• Richard B. Jackman, University College London, U.K.
• Fedor Jelezko, Universität Ulm, Germany
• Satoshi Koizumi, NIMS, Japan
• Anke Krueger, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
• Paul W. May, University of Bristol, U.K.
• David A.J. Moran, University of Glasgow, U.K.
• Mark E. Newton, University of Warwick, U.K.
• Shannon S. Nicley, Michigan State University, U.S.A.
• Julien Pernot, CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes-Institut Néel, France
  
• Bohuslav Rezek, Czech Technical University, Czechia
• Jean-François Roch, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France
• Romana Schirhagl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
• Matthias Schreck, Universität Augsburg, Germany
• Michael Trupke, Universität Wien, Austria
• Hitoshi Umezawa, AIST, Japan
• Oliver A. Williams, Cardiff University, U.K.
• Nianjun Yang, Hasselt University, Belgium

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