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Acknowledgments The organizers, and in particular one of the co-Chairmen (JPFS), acknowledge with great appreciation the encouragement and financial support of a group of South African companies who made possible the assembly of a group of invited speakers to address the burgeoning field of'wide band gap materials in Strasbourg, and the production of these Proceedings the considerable value of which will undoubtedly be ongoing. We record with appreciation the names of Messrs. de Beers Industrial Diamonds, (Pty) Ltd., Johannesburg The Division of Materials Science and Technology, CSIR, Pretoria Messrs. Allied Electronics Corporation, Ltd., Houghton, Johannesburg The Barlow Rand Education Trust, Johannesburg Messrs. Reunert, Ltd., Johannesburg Siemens South Africa, Ltd., Johannesburg Messrs. Boart International, Ltd., Johannesburg

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