Festschrift. The 5th International Meeting on Recent Developments in the
Study of Radiation Effects in Matter will be organized to honor James W. Mayer for or his many important
contributions in the field of ion-solid interactions.
Jim Mayer's accomplishments played a critical role in the initiation of three exceptional scientific and
technological advances: (i) the development of the solid-state detector; (ii) the birth of the field of
ion beam analysis of materials, and (iii) the pioneering of the application of ion implantation to
semiconductors. These interrelated advances changed the course of how low energy nuclear and atomic
physics were conducted, created an entirely new characterization tool for the study of thin film science,
and impacted all of the microelectronics industry.