Abstract Template:
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Template and Guidelines for a UCPSS 2-page Extended Abstract:
Title Should be centered in Arial 14 font, Boldface
Mustafa F. Doe 1, a, Clint W.J. Kubota2, Jim-Goo Park2 and Louise M. Macron3
1 Affiliation and Full address of first author, including country (11pt arial)
2 Affiliation and Full address of second author, including country
3 List all distinct addresses in the same way
a email of corresponding author
Keywords: List the keywords covered in your paper – they will be used to facilitate the organisation of the symposium program into different topical sessions. For the keywords, use Arial 11pt font. For the rest of the paper, please use Times Roman (or Times New Roman) 12pt.
Introduction
It is required to take this document as a template. All manuscripts must be in English and text must be in black/white only. Color figures or photographs should also reproduce well in black and white only. Check your article by printing a hardcopy on a high-quality printer in black/white mode. Please keep this in mind when designing your figures, tables or other artwork etc…
This document explains how to prepare your extended abstract to be submitted to the UCPSS (Ultraclean Processing of Semiconductor Surfaces) conference.
The main purpose of the extended abstract is to allow the program committee to judge if the quality of the work meets the acceptance standard of UCPSS. Abstracts with a commercial content or without data or results will not be accepted.
General typesetting rules
Page Layout. The text area for your manuscript must be 17 cm wide and 25 cm high (approx. 6.7 inch by 9.8 inch). Do not place anything outside this rectangular frame. Use A4 size (21cm ´ 29.7cm) document setting and page setting. The total abstract length should be at least 2 pages (including figures) and should not exceed 4 pages.
Text formatting. Use a justified 12pt Times New Roman font for the body text. Use italic for emphasizing a word or phrase. Do not use boldface typing or capital letters except for section headings (cf. remarks on section headings, below).
Section Headings. The section headings are in 12pt boldface capital and lowercase letters. Second level headings are typed as part of the succeeding paragraph (like the subsection heading of this paragraph) in a 12pt Times New Roman boldface. There should be no third level headings.
Page Numbers. Do not add page numbers.
Units. Use SI-units for all physical quantities (e.g. m, kg, s, N, C, A, V, K, J, eV, Pa, bar, …). Use of other regional or outdated non-SI units is not accepted (e.g. torr, psi, inch, cal, ft, US-gallon, UK-gallon, btu, pk, hp.…) but may optionally be added between brackets, if (still commonly used). E.g. overpressure, pg = 1 bar (=approx. 14 psi).
Equations. Equations (refer with: Eq. 1, Eq. 2,…) should be indented 5 mm (= approx. 0.2 inch), with enough space above and below to separate the equation clearly from the running text. Equations have to be numbered sequentially, with the equation number put in parentheses and flushed to the right (see Eq. 1).
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A detailed overview of the typographic rules regarding symbols and equations can be found in instructions and guidelines for authors of scientific journal contributions (e.g. the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Style Manual). This implies the following:
The (non-italic) roman typeface is to be used for text-like items, more specifically for:
-Subscripts representing clarifying text or text abbreviations (e.g haverage , Cg, with “g” from “gas”).
-Standard mathematical functions (e.g. sin, exp,…) and chemical symbols (e.g. Au, Ni,…)
-(fixed) values, units (standard units such as m, kg, Hz, C, A and imaginary units such as i, j)
–Single italic letters are used to denote variables: such as symbols for mathematical quantities (x,y,z), symbols for physical quantities (e.g. A, v, T, Cg, with “C” from “Concentration”), mathematical functions f(x), and indices representing symbols of physical quantities (e.g. Ga1-xAlxAs).
The use of this proper standardized style improves communication accuracy: it allows for clear discrimination between e.g. a variable A (for area) and the unit A (for ampere) or the variable T (for temperature) and the unit T (for tesla).
Tables or figures
Tables or figures (floating items) can be placed at the most relevant place in the text (i.e. where they are first referred to) or grouped together at the end of the extended abstract. In the former case, they should be positioned distinctly from the running text, e.g. by adding empty space above or below the item.
Adding captions. Tables and figures should be accompanied by a numbered, self explaining caption. In MS Word, this can be achieved using “insert – caption” from the menu bar and by selecting the appropriate floating item (table or figure). Cross references to tables and figures can be inserted by selecting “insert – cross reference” from the menu bar and by selecting the appropriate floating item from the list. In this way, numbering of the floating items and the corresponding cross references is done automatically. The font for captions is 10pt Times New Roman.
Tables. Tables (referred to with: Table I,…) contain one or more header lines, describing the table contents. Units should be given in standard brackets (meV).
The table caption (with the table number in roman capital numbers) should be placed above or beside the table. Horizontal lines are used to separate the caption from the table header and from the contents, or to delineate larger table portions. Individual lines of a table should not be separated (see e.g. Table I).
Figures. In the case of figures (referred to with: Figure 1,…) the caption, containing the figure number, should be placed below or beside the figure. Please include figures as graphic images in the electronic version.
In mathematical graphs, no line-frame should be put around the figure and no gridlines should be used. It is highly recommended, however, to use x/y mirror axes with appropriate major and minor ticks. The font of the labels should be chosen – large enough – such that they are clearly readable. To distinguish different traces or curves from each other one should use an appropriate combination of marker types or line styles hashing patterns, instead of colors or grey scales (see e.g. Figure 1 and Figure 2). For line traces, an appropriate line thickness must be chosen. The background should be white, implying that background color or grey should be removed.
Literature References
Refer to original and state-of-the art literature. A minimum of 5 references is mandatory. The references must be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text and are to be listed at the end of the contribution under the heading References; see our example below. The references are printed in a 10pt Times New Roman font.
References are cited in the text by square brackets [1]. Two or more references at a time should be put in one set of brackets like [1,2]. The references are printed in a 10pt Times New Roman font.
Submission – MS Word or PDF format file
The abstract should be saved in a MS Word format or a PDF document and submitted via the official abstract submission module that can be accessed via the conference website www.ucpss2025.org. Deadline for submission is April 17th, 2025. Abstracts will not be accepted if sent by email.
References
[1] D.M. Maric, P.F. Meier and S.K. Estreicher: Mater. Sci. Forum 83-87 (1992), p. 119.
[2] M.A. Green: High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells (Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, 1987).
Figure 1: Area concentration of residual surface contamination after two spin cleaning processes.
Table I: Overview of W0 (sr) for SiO2 particles using oblique illumination in combination with the wide and narrow detectors of the particle measurement tool.
| Detector | Si substrate | Si3N4 substrate |
| Wide | 0.8 ± 0.3 | 1.6 ± 0.3 |
| Narrow | 0.31 ± 0.03 | 1.8 ± 0.4 |
Figure 2: Area concentration of residual Es-contamination on the surface as a function of Es mass fraction and pH of the cleaning liquid, for two cleaning techniques.