May 28, 2008

IEDM'08

The 2008 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) will be held in the Hilton San Francisco Hotel in San Francisco, CA, from December 15 to 17 2008.

IEDM is the top conference in the field of electron devices. It is of course the most competitive one. Only truly outstanding papers are accepted. It is highly recommended that experimental results are shown, also some good simulation papers can be also accepted.

Two short courses will be held on Sunday, december 14: 22 nm Technology and More than Moore: Technologies for Functional Diversification.

This year there will also be plenary presentations by Peter Fromherz of Max Planck Institute; Tatsuo Saga from Sharp; Stefan K. Lai from Ovonyx, Inc.

Deadline for abstract submissions is June 27 2008 at 5.00 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Topics include all aspects related to electron devices, grouped in several areas:

-CMOS DEVICES & TECHNOLOGY (CDT)
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CHARACTERIZATION, RELIABILITY and YIELD (CRY)
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DISPLAYS, SENSORS, AND MEMS (DSM)
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MEMORY TECHNOLOGY (MT)
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MODELING AND SIMULATION (MS)
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PROCESS TECHNOLOGY (PT)
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QUANTUM, POWER, AND COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES (QPC)
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SOLID STATE AND NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES (SSN)

This year the area of Modeling and Simulation (MS) explicitly includes "
physical and compact models for devices and interconnects". And it is said "Submissions should advance the art of modeling and simulation or apply existing techniques to gain new insights into devices".

If you have important results to show, I vively recommend to send an abstract to IEDM. It is the best place to present them, and to discuss them with the top people. Even if your abstract is rejected, or if you do not have any new results to show, I encourage researchers to attend IEDM, including compact modeling researchers.

May 23, 2008

OSC'08

The 2008 Organic Semiconductor Conference (OSC-08) will take place in Frankfort (Germany), from September 28 to October 1 2008. The conference will be held in the Congress Centre, at the Frankfort Messe.

OSC-08 includes three tracks with presentations by invited speakers plus one track with peer review papers, a poster session, and also an exhibition of leading organic semiconductor technology companies, as well as an exhibitor forum.

Topics include all aspects related to development, manufacturing and investment in organic semiconductor technologies and organic electronics. Besides, this year, for the first time OSC-08 will also cover carbon nanotubes, graphenes and fullerenes.

The deadline for review paper submission is May 25 2008.

The invited speakers come from both academia and industry. Among them, there are very prestigious researchers such as Hagen Klauk (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research), Karlheinz Bock (Fraunhofer IZM), Takao Someya (University of Tokyo), Edzer Huitema (Polymer Vision), or Jan Genoe (IMEC).