ICOE'07

The third edition of the International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE) was held at the High-Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 04-07 2007

ICOE arised as an initiative of the European Framework 6 IST Programme through the Integrated Project 'PolyApply'. This conference addresses all issues related to organic electronics, such as materials, manufacture, Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs), OLEDs, PV devices, organic circuit design, and organic device modeling.

Many interesting papers were presented, mostly from Europe. It should be mentioned that there are many European teams currently working on organic electronics.

There were not many paper dealing with device modeling, although there were interesting. We can highlit the papers entitled "Modeling Traps in ultrathin pentacene transistors," by A. D. Geiser, A. von Mühlenen, N. Errien and L. Zuppiroli (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland), "Paper Charge Injection Model for Organic Light-emitting Diodes," by L. Li, G. Meller, and H. Kosina (Institute for Microelectronics, TU-Wien, Wien, Austria).

One paper presented a compact model for OTFTs, assuming a transport mechanism based on a quasi-drift-quasi-diffusion theory.. It was entitled "Analytical modelling of TFTs and diodes on small molecule organic semiconductor devices," by S. Prior, D.Donaghy, W.Eccleston (Organic Electronics Group, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK), and B. Stablober and A. Haase (Joanneum Research, Austria).

The invited speakers were also top scientists in Organic Electronics. Sergei Baranovski (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) presented a theory of the charge transport in disordered organic materials. Dan Frisbie (University of Minnesota, USA) made a talk about the Polymer Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistors. Hagen Klauk (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany) made a very interesting presentation about low voltage organic transistors and circuits. Takao Someya (University of Tokyo, Japan) addressed the printed organic transistors for large-area skin-like sensors and actuators.

Despite PolyApply will end at the end of 2007, it is expected that ICOE will still be held new year, supported by other sponsors.

MOS-AK at ESSDERC/ESSCIRC'07

MOS-AK Workshop on compact modeling will be held on Friday, 14 September 2007 in Munich, and it is organized for fifth subsequent time as an integral part of the ESSDERC/ESSCIRC conference, aims to strengthen a network and discussion forum among experts in the field, create an open platform for information exchange related to compact/Spice modeling, bring people in the compact modeling field together, as well as obtain feedback from technology developers, circuit designers, and CAD tool vendors.

The topics cover all important aspects of compact model development, implementation, deployment and standardization within the main theme - compact models for mainstream CMOS/SOI circuit simulation. The specific workshop goal will be to classify the most important directions for the future development of the compact models and to clearly identify areas that need further research.

This workshop is designed for device process engineers (CMOS, SOI, BiCMOS, SiGe) who are interested in device modeling; ICs designers (RF/IF/Analog/Mixed-Signal/SoC) and those starting in that area as well as device characterization, modeling and parameter extraction engineers. The content will be beneficial for anyone who needs to learn what is really behind IC simulation in modern device models. The technical program of MOS-AK Workshop consists of one day of tutorials given by noted academic and industry experts, also a posters session is foreseen.

More information on http://www.mos-ak.org/munich/

CMOS at 60GHz

It is not Compact Modelling, but it is interesting enough. It seems that toshiba has developed a CMOS (yes, CMOS) technology able to run at 60GHz... See yourself the press release here.

Spintronics

Some news in the papers. It seems that someone has succeeded in controlling spin properties inside a semiconductor... You can get more info following the link.

New simulator with HiSIM

Simucad has announced (see the press note) the release of a new version of their simulator supporting HiSIM. Well, that's another point for HiSIM, and another drawback for PSP.