The last call for papers has been issued for the DCIS'07. This conference has evolved from its origins, more than two decades ago, into an important international meeting for researches in the highly active fields of micro and nano electronics circuits and integrated systems. It provides an excellent forum to present and investigate the emerging challenges in modelling, design, implementation and test of circuits and systems. Experts from both industry and academia have the chance to discuss the demands and solutions for current applications. Strong scientific, technical and personal relationships have been developed in the frame of this event. Moreover, there will be at least one session dedicated to modelling. So, it is a very good opportunity to visit Sevilla!
Mar 20, 2007
DCIS'07
Mar 16, 2007
MIGAS'07 Summer School will focus on Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation
The International Summer School on Advanced Microelectronics (MIGAS) has become probably the top summer school held in Europe in the field of semiconductor devices. MIGAS is organized by the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and the Center for Innovation in Micro & NanoTechnology (MINATEC). The venue is always a beautiful town or resort in the Alps close to Grenoble. This year MIGAS'07 (June 24-29) will take place in Autrans, a well-known alpine resort, offering many kind of outdoor opportunities: hiking, mountain climbing, mountain-biking,...
Every year MIGAS addresses a different topic. This year, MIGAS'07 (10th Session) will be devoted to Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation for NanoElectronics.
It is well known that traditional modeling tools are not suitable to simulate the behaviour of nanoelectronic devices. The invited lecturers will explain new methods to model nanoscale devices:
-Non-equilibrium Green's functions methods (M.P. Anantram, Waterloo, Canada)
-Ab-initio methods (X. Blase, Lyon, France)
-Wigner functions methods (P. Dollfus, Paris, France)
-Monte Carlo methods (D. Esseni, Udine, Italy)
-Kp methods (F. Michelini, Marseille, France)
-Tight-binding methods (Y.M. Niquet, Grenoble, France)
-Deterministic solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation (C. Jungemann, Munich, Germany)
In addition, there will be lectures on nanoscale device process simulation (M. Jaraiz, Valladolid, Spain), quantum transport theory (D.K. Ferry, Arizona, USA) , noise in nanoelectronics (G. Iannaccone, Pisa, Italy), and also characterisation techniques (S. Cristoloveanu, Grenoble, France) . Finally, I will conduct a lecture on the compact modeling of nanoscale MOSFETs.
No doubt MIGAS'07 will be a very interesting opportunity for students and researchers to become familiar with the new modeling methods proposed for the novel nanoelectronic devices.
Every year MIGAS addresses a different topic. This year, MIGAS'07 (10th Session) will be devoted to Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation for NanoElectronics.
It is well known that traditional modeling tools are not suitable to simulate the behaviour of nanoelectronic devices. The invited lecturers will explain new methods to model nanoscale devices:
-Non-equilibrium Green's functions methods (M.P. Anantram, Waterloo, Canada)
-Ab-initio methods (X. Blase, Lyon, France)
-Wigner functions methods (P. Dollfus, Paris, France)
-Monte Carlo methods (D. Esseni, Udine, Italy)
-Kp methods (F. Michelini, Marseille, France)
-Tight-binding methods (Y.M. Niquet, Grenoble, France)
-Deterministic solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation (C. Jungemann, Munich, Germany)
In addition, there will be lectures on nanoscale device process simulation (M. Jaraiz, Valladolid, Spain), quantum transport theory (D.K. Ferry, Arizona, USA) , noise in nanoelectronics (G. Iannaccone, Pisa, Italy), and also characterisation techniques (S. Cristoloveanu, Grenoble, France) . Finally, I will conduct a lecture on the compact modeling of nanoscale MOSFETs.
No doubt MIGAS'07 will be a very interesting opportunity for students and researchers to become familiar with the new modeling methods proposed for the novel nanoelectronic devices.
Mar 14, 2007
Technology news
I've found a curious article at the EE Times Europe (a nice journal, by the way). The title is "Graphene transistor to rival silicon, say researchers". Some researchers at the University of Manchester and at the Max Planck Institute claim that they have developed a transistor that is 1 atom thin. Read the full story at the link above, but I've loved the last sentence: "Professor Geim indicated graphene based circuits would not come of age before 2025 and till then silicon based devices would predominate.". This is long-term research... Now, seriously, what they are developing, if it can be used industrialy, will be a revolution, bringing single electron devices to life. However, we shall have to wait 18 years more.
Mar 13, 2007
Links
I've found some interesting links about Compact Modeling. The first one is the homepage of Dr. Zhou Xing, at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). A quite interesting page, with links to many of his papers and works.
The second link is more educational, and contains the material of a course in the "Grupo de Electrónica del Estado Sólido de la Universidad Simón Bolívar" (Caracas, VENEZUELA). The only drawback of this excellent page is that it is in a mixture of Spanish and English. However, the completeness of the page fully justifies a visit.
The second link is more educational, and contains the material of a course in the "Grupo de Electrónica del Estado Sólido de la Universidad Simón Bolívar" (Caracas, VENEZUELA). The only drawback of this excellent page is that it is in a mixture of Spanish and English. However, the completeness of the page fully justifies a visit.
Mar 9, 2007
Carbon Nanotubes
I've been informed that the Journal of Semiconductor Science and Technology freely distributes (up to april, 18th) its special issue on charge and transport on Carbon Nanotubes. It is a very interesting topic, and the papers are both reviews and original research. I think it is an opportunity not to be missed.
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