May 8, 2010

May 7, 1952: The Integrated Circuit …



1952: British radar engineer Geoffrey Dummer introduces the concept of the integrated circuit at a tech conference in the United States. The world is about to change. Read more... by www.wired.com

Organic Transistor Could Outshine OLEDs



”The light-emitting transistor is a remarkably versatile device architecture,” says Alan Heeger, a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Heeger’s lab developed an OLET inverter circuit earlier, but its quantum efficiency was much lower. He called the 5 percent external quantum efficiency ”remarkable,” because it suggests that nearly 100 percent of the carriers in the emissive layer are emitting photons. ”If that is indeed true,” Heeger says, ”they have made an important step forward.”

May 7, 2010

3rd International Workshop on Copact TFT Modeling for Circuit Simulation: Deadline Extended

The 3rd International Workshop on Compact Thin-Film Transistor Modeling for Circuit Simulation (C-TFT) will be held in Tarragona on July 2 2010.

Deadline for abstract submission has been extended:

- Deadline for abstract submission: May 19, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2010
- Camera-ready version: Jun 18, 2010

The C-TFT Workshop will provide a forum for discussions and current practices on compact TFT modeling. The workshop is sponsored by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in collaboration with the IEEE EDS Compact Modeling Technical Committee and the University College London.

Topics:
A partial list of the areas of interest includes:

- Physics of TFTs and operating principles
- Compact TFT device models for circuit simulation
- Model implementation and circuit analysis techniques
- Model parameter extraction techniques
- Applications of compact TFT models in emerging products
- Compact models for interconnects in active matrix flat panels

Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract of up to 500-word to: nae.bogden@urv.cat



This event will be held in coordination with the Training Courses on Compact Modeling (June 30-July 1) and the Graduate Student Meeting on Electronic Engineering (June 28-29).

Tarragona is located in the south of Catalonia, in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula. Tarraco (the Roman name for Tarragona) was one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire. On 30 November 2000, the UNESCO committee officially declared the Roman archaeological complex of Tarraco a World Heritage Site. This recognition is intended to help ensure the conservation of the monuments, as well as to introduce them to the broader international public.

May 5, 2010

EPFL MicroNano Fabrication Annual Review Meeting

The Networking Event organized by the EPFL Center of MicroNanoTechnology (CMi)

Date: Tuesday May 18th, 2010
Time: 09h30 - 17h00
Place: EPFL Lausanne, Salle Polyvalente, Centre Est, CE 1 515

Program :
The presented topics include:
  • Biomedical Applications (Microfluidics, Cellular-Manipulation, Microelectrode Arrays, Molecules Detection, BioMicroNanoSystems, ...)
  • Optics (Nanophotonics, Optomechanics, Optofluidics, MOEMS, ...)
  • Micro and Nanoelectronics (Nanowires, High-Q Resonators, RF MEMS and Switches, 3D integration, CMOS, ...)
  • Nanostructure Physics (III/V Devices, Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanomechanics, ...)
  • Material Sciences (Graphene, Polymers, Piezoelectric Ceramics, Photovoltaic Materials, Micro Fuel Cells, ...)
  • MEMS, NEMS (Motors, Tweezers, Sensors and Actuators, Micro and Nanomechanics, ...)
  • Micro and Nanofabrication Technologies (Self-Assembly, EBEAM Lithography, Dry Etching, Thin Films, Photolithography, FIB, CMP, ...)
  • Packaging and Assembly
Registration is required by sending an email to: claudia.dagostino@epfl.ch

May 3, 2010

[mos-ak] MOS-AK/GSA ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Workshop in Seville: 1st announcement

MOS-AK/GSA ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Workshop in Seville
*** 1st announcement ***

Date: September 17, 2010
Venue: Barceló Hotel Renacimiento

Co-Located With:
* 40th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC):
http://www.essderc2010.org
* 36th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) :
http://www.esscirc2010.org
* CMC Meeting (Q3 Event in Madrid): http://www.geia.org/index.asp?bid=597

More MOS-AK/GSA information and updates: http://www.mos-ak.org/seville/

Extended MOS-AK/GSA Committee:
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http://www.mos-ak.org/committee.html
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MOS-AK/GSA North America:
Chair: Pekka Ojala, Exar Corporation
Co-Chair: Geoffrey Coram, Analog Devices
Co-Chair: Prof. Jamal Deen, U.McMaster

MOS-AK/GSA South America:
Chair: Prof. Gilson I Wirth; UFRGS; Brazil
Co-Chair: Prof. Carlos Galup-Montor, UFSC; Brazil

MOS-AK/GSA Europe:
Chair: Ehrenfried Seebacher, austriamicrosystems AG
Co-Chair: Sebastian Schmidt, XFab
Co-Chair: Prof. Benjamin Iniguez, URV

MOS-AK/GSA Asia/Pacific:
Chair: Goichi Yokomizo, STARC, Japan
Co-Chair: Sadayuki Yoshitomi, Toshiba, Japan
Co-Chair: Xing Zhou, NTU, Singapore
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May 2, 2010

Thoughts on Directions for Silicon Technology Development as we Approach the End of CMOS Scaling

Speaker: Dr. Tak H. Ning, IBM and IEEE Fellow, and co-author of the Taur & Ning textbook now in its second edition.
Date: TUESDAY, May 11, 2010; Time: 6:00 PM - Pizza, 6:15 PM – Lecture; Cost: Free
Location: National Semiconductor, Building E1, Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Web link: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/eds/
Contact: Sandeep Bahl