Seventh International Caribbean Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems

Wishing all of you a very happy and prosperous New Year, I would like to remind you about the Seventh International Caribbean Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems, ICCDCS 2008, which will be held in Cancún, México, April 28-30. This conference will be preceded by an IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium, on Sunday April 27. More information can be found on the conference's web pages or in the call for papers.

Happy new year!

With our best wishes, we hope the new year 2008 will bring happiness and joy to you and all your loved ones.

Benjamin and Rodrigo

2008 IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium

The 2008 IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS 20008)
will take place in Monterey (in the Portola Plaza Hotel) in October 12-15 2008.

CSICS is the major conference in Compound Semiconductor technologies integrated circuits. The scope of the conference includes all topics related to the fabrication, design, applications, testing, packaging and reliability of compound semiconductor devices and circuits. All compound semiconductor technologies are addressed: GaAs, GaN, SiGe, InP,...

The deadline for electronic receipt of abstracts is May 12 2008.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.

Besides, CSICs 2008 will offer the popular primer course "Basics of GaAs, InP and SiGe RFICs".


And, last but not least, the Symposium offers the possibility to enjoy several days in the beautiful and picturesque city of Monterey, with its famous Monterey Bay Aquarium, wonderful beaches, the Monterey Bay harbor and hundreds of dining and entertainment options, including the famous Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant!

Nanotube-Producing Bacteria

Two engineers at the University of California, Riverside are part of a team that has found semiconducting nanotubes produced by living bacteria – a discovery that could help in the creation of a new generation of nanoelectronic devices.

Have a look at the full story at Semiconductor Online, or have a look at the original press release.

Genus Shewanella. The nanotube filaments produced by biological means could point toward semiconductor manufacturing processes with a smaller energy and environmental footprint. Image credit: Hor-Gil Hur, GIST

A paper on IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering

In this month's issue (Volume 3, Issue 1, 2008), I've found an interesting paper from the HiSim people. Have a look at it:

A Gate-Current Model for Advanced MOSFET Technologies Implemented into HiSIM2
(Ryosuke Inagaki, Norio Sadachika, Dondee Navarro, Mitiko Miura-Mattausch, Yasuaki Inoue)