The 8th ICCG conference will take place in Braunschweig on 13-17 June 2010, at the Conference Center, Stadthalle Braunschweig, Germany. Organized by the ICCG & the Fraunhofer Inst for Surface Eng & Thin Films IST, the focus of the conference is to bring together science & industry. Besides universities & research institutes, the conference addresses coating manufacturers, material & equipment suppliers as well as all kinds of user industries. The conference will also include a series of short courses, on 13 June, during which experts will give educational lectures to provide fundamental backgrounds in specific conference topics regarding materials, processes & applications, such as: Carrier Transport & Device Design for Oxide Semiconductors; Roll-to-Roll Atmospheric Pressure Processes & Vacuum Processes; Solar Cells; Switchable Coatings; & Photocatalysis.