Dec 12, 2007

IEEE Staff Member Awarded

William F. Van Der Vort, executive director of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, received this year's Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award.
The annual IEEE-sponsored award recognizes leadership and contributions to the success of the IEEE over a long period of time. Read on at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/8823/40298008

Dec 8, 2007

International Symposium on Flexible Electronics 2008

The first International Symposium on Flexible Electronics (ISFE 2008) will be held in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, on April 6-9 2008.

This new conference is sponsored by the Engineering Conferences International (ECI) Foundation, together with the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV, Tarragona, Spain)

The deadline for 300-word abstracts for oral presentations has been extended to December 17 2008.

Abstracts for posters can be sent until February 2008, but will not be published in the Book of Abstracts.

The invited speakers who have confirmed their participation are:

Prof. Michael S Shur (RPI, Troy, NY, USA)
Prof. Yue Kuo (Texas A&M University)
Prof. M. Jamal Deen (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Prof. Takao Someya (Tokyo University, Japan)
Dr Warren Jackson (HP, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
Prof. William Eccleston (University of Liverpool, UK)
Dr Euan Smith (CDT, Cambridge, UK)
Dr Hagen Klauk (Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany)

Dec 3, 2007

MIXDES Special Session on Compact Modelling

Let me remind you about a special session on Compact Modelling which
will be held during the nearest MIXDES Conference, Poznan', June 19-21,
2008 (http://www.mixdes.org). Its main topic, i.e. "Compact Modeling and
Characterization of Nano CMOS Technologies" is very, very closely
related the COMON domain. I am sure, that Your participation would
enrich the session level and would be very helpful for COMON activity.

Papers in JAP

Nonequilibrium transport of charge carriers and transient electroluminescence in organic light-emitting diodes
V. R. Nikitenko and H. von Seggern
J. Appl. Phys. 102, 103708 (2007) (9 pages)
Abstract

Generation-recombination and thermal noise coupling in the drift-diffusion model
Fabio E. Zocchi
J. Appl. Phys. 102, 103712 (2007) (5 pages)
Abstract

Quantum conductance in single- and double-wall carbon nanotube networks
M. Baxendale, M. Melli, Z. Alemipour, I. Pollini, and T. J. S. Dennis
J. Appl. Phys. 102, 103721 (2007) (6 pages)
Abstract

Determination of trap distributions from current characteristics of pentacene field-effect transistors with surface modified gate oxide
Susanne Scheinert, Kurt P. Pernstich, Bertram Batlogg, and Gernot Paasch
J. Appl. Phys. 102, 104503 (2007) (8 pages)
Abstract

A numerical model for explaining the role of the interface morphology in composite solar cells
C. M. Martin, V. M. Burlakov, H. E. Assender, and D. A. R. Barkhouse
J. Appl. Phys. 102, 104506 (2007) (9 pages)
Abstract

Nov 30, 2007

An industrial view on Compact Modelling

A quite interesting paper that came out in the 2006 ESSDERC, and has now been published in an special issue of the IEEE TED. It has been written by R. Woltjer, L. Tiemeijer and D. Klaassen,
from the Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven.
They review compact modelling from its beginnings, and explain two different examples (the PSP model, obiously, and a compact model for integrated inductors). It is quite interesting as a first (or second...) contact with this world.
By the way, the paper (An industrial view on Compact Modelling) is here.