Course ToM2022 (May, 9th-13th, 2022)

"Semiconductor trip: from a simple idea to a complex manufacturing"

Abstract: The intent of this course, dedicated to PhD students and held in Italian, is giving a general overview of the complex mechanism that, starting from a simple idea, leads to the manufacturing of a microelectronic device. The environment of a big company as STMicroelectronics will be presented as well as the fundamentals steps of the manufacturing path. During the course, the importance of the research and development and the value of the knowledge will be discussed in the frame of the willingness of a corporate social responsibility.
                                        Lecture Schedule
==> Monday, May, 9th, 2022
09:00 – 09:30    Marco Marchesi - "Introduction to the course"
09:30 – 10:30    Sonia Fulgoni - "ST Company overview and its Technical Staff Community"
10:30 – 12:30    Alessandro Cremonesi - "Innovation at ST"
14:00 – 16:00    Antonio Molfese – "ST Technology Research and Development"

==> Tuesday, May, 10th, 2022
09:00 – 11:00    Paolo Pesenti – "Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) for motion"
11:00 – 13:00    Alessandra Sciutti – "MEMS Technology"
14:30 – 16:30    Simone Dario Mariani, Giuseppe Fazio – "Process Technology"

==> Wednesday, May, 11th, 2022
09:00 – 11:00    Giulio Ricotti – "Ultrasound for Health"
11:00 – 13:00    Domenico Genova – "Analog & Mixed Signal Design Implementation Flows"
14:30 – 16:30    Pierluigi Rolandi – "Design Research and Development"

==> Thursday, May, 12th, 2022
09:00 – 11:00    Giovanni Graziosi – "Package platform and co-design challenges"
11:00 – 13:00    Davide Appello – "Testing"
14:30 – 16:30    Alberto Mancaleoni – "Reliability"

==> Friday, May, 13th, 2022
09:00 – 11:00    Mauro Merlotti – "Failure Analysis"
11:00 – 13:00    Luisa Fracassini – "ST's Sustainable Excellence"
14:30 – 16:30    Andrea Redaelli – "An introduction to ePCM"
16:30 – 17:00    Marco Marchesi – "Conclusions"

Lectures will be held in the Room U4/08
Building U4 – Piazza della Scienza 5 – 20126 Milan (Italy)

More information and on-line registration is available at:
https://www.mbtechnoservices.com/index.php?page=ToM/ToM.html

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Fwd: [NTC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE-NANO 2022 Submission deadline extended

We call your attention to some key dates for IEEE-NANO 2022.

• IEEE-NANO 2022 (22rd IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology) Call for Papers - extended 6-March-2022
  

• IEEE NANO 2022 Call for Special Session Proposals - extended 27-February-2022
  

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IEEE-NANO 2022 (22rd IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology)Location: Majorca, Spain
Dates: July 4-8, 2022
General Chair: Sorin Cotofana, Technische Universiteit Delft; Antonio Rubio, U. Poitecnica de Catalunya

Website: 

https://2022.ieeenano.org

EXTENDED: Regular Submissions Due: March 6, 2022

 For details on the extended Call for Papers, see https://ieeenano.org/2022/ieee-nano-2022-submission-deadlines-extended

 

The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2022) will be held from 6th to 8th of July, 2022, at the Auditorium of Palma, the capital of Balearic Islands, Spain.

 

IEEE-NANO is the flagship IEEE international conference on Nanotechnology, which has been a successful annual conference since 2001.

 

The conference scope spans both nanoscience and nanotechnology including:

• Nanorobotics and nanomanufacturing
• Nano-Biomedicine
• Nanofabrication
• Nano-Optics, Nanophotonics and Nano-Optoelectronics
• Spintronics
• Nanoelectronics
• Nanosensors and nanoactuators
• Nano-materials
• Nano-Metrology and Characterization
• Modeling and Simulation
• Nanopackaging
• Nanomagnetics
• Nano Energy, Environment and Safety
• Nanoscale Communications
• Nano-acoustic devices, Processes and Materials
• Quantum, Neuromorphic, and Unconventional Computing
• Emerging Plasma Nanotechnologies.

Authors are invited to submit papers 4 pages in length for the Regular Paper Sessions and Special Sessions. See https://2022.ieeenano.org/guidlines/.  

 

TIMELINE:

Special sessions Proposals: February 27th 2022
Deadline for regular submissions: March 6th 2022
Deadline for presentation without publication submissions: May 15th, 2022

[book] The Random and Fluctuating World

The Random and Fluctuating World
Celebrating Two Decades of Fluctuation and Noise Letters

February 2022 Pages: 640

Edited By: 

P V E McClintock (Lancaster University, UK) and 

L B Kish (Texas A&M University, USA)

DOI: 10.1142/12720 | 

Description: It is now almost 20 years since the journal Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL) was first published hence this book is to commemorate this important milestone. This book consists of 55 reprinted articles from the first 20 years of FNL, together with a short Introduction explaining their context and significance. In selecting the papers, the Editors had taken into account not only citation counts, but guided also by the perceived interest and scientific importance of the work. All selected articles are arranged across eight themes.

Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Fundamentals of Noise
• Noise in Quantum Systems
• Noise in Complex Systems
• Noise in Biological Systems
• Noise in Materials, Circuitry, Devices and Sensing
• Noise, Computation and Energy Dissipation
• Noise in Finance
• Noise and Security in Communications
• Author Index

Readership: Physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers, biologists, medical scientists, IT specialists, social scientists, economists, advanced graduate students.

[paper] Analytic Modeling of Passive Microfluidic Mixers

Alexi Bonament¹, Alexis Prel¹, Jean-Michel Sallese², Christophe Lallement¹, 

and Morgan Madec¹

Analytic modelling of passive microfluidic mixers

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (2022)

Vol. 19, No. 4: 3892-3908

DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2022179

   
1. ICube, UMR 7357, Universite de Strasbourg/CRNS (F)
2. STI-IEL-Electronics Laboratory, EPFL (CH)

Abstract: This paper deals with a new analytical model for microfluidic passive mixers. Two common approaches already exist for such a purpose. On the one hand, the resolution of the advection-diffusion-reaction equation (ADRE) is the first one and the closest to physics. However, ADRE is a partial differential equation that requires finite element simulations. On the other hand, analytical models based on the analogy between microfluidics and electronics have already been established. However, they rely on the assumption of homogeneous fluids, which means that the mixer is supposed to be long enough to obtain a perfect mixture at the output. In this paper, we derive an analytical model from the ADRE under several assumptions. Then we integrate these equations within the electronic-equivalent models. The resulting models computed the relationship between pressure and flow rate in the microfluidic circuit, but also takes the concentration gradients that can appear in the direction perpendicular to the channel into account. The model is compared with the finite element simulation performed with COMSOL Multiphysics in several study cases. We estimate that the global error introduced by our model compared to the finite element simulation is less than 5% in every use case. In counterparts, the cost in terms of computational resources is drastically reduced. The analytical model can be implemented in a large range of modelling and simulation languages, including SPICE and hardware description language such as Verilog-AMS. This feature is very interesting in the context of the in silicon prototyping of large-scale microfluidic devices or multi-physics devices involving microfluidic circuits, e.g. lab-on-chips.

Fig:  Schematic of the Y-shaped passive mixer. The device is composed of two inlets (here, one is the water and the other is a dye) and one outlet. As we can see on this cartoon (which is purely illustrative and not a simulation result), the mixing is established along the channel and, for a short channel, the dye concentration is not homogeneous in the x direction.

Acknowledgments: This research was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Interreg V Upper Rhine Offensive Sciences Program (Project 3.14 – Water Pollution Sensor).