Analog CMOS from 5 micrometer to 5 nanometer

 Sansen, W., "1.3 Analog CMOS from 5 micrometer to 5 nanometer," ISSCC 2015 IEEE International , vol., no., pp.1,6, 22-26 Feb. 2015 doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2015.7062848 

Abstract: In our future, as usual, analog designers will continue to expand their expertise and knowledge in response to changing needs. While devices will change their nature and operate at higher and higher frequencies, their I-V characteristics will remain similar. In the near term, increased speed of MOS circuits, will be reached by operating deeper in weak inversion. Offset and 1/f noise will continue to play a critical role. Thus, in general, it seems that analog expertise is insensitive to technology change.

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QUCS: Project of the Week, June 1, 2015

 The Qucs is one of the featured projects for the week (June 1, 2015), which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

 Qucs is a circuit simulator with a graphical user interface. The software aims to support all kinds of circuit simulation types such as, e.g. DC, AC, S-parameter, Transient, Noise, and Harmonic Balance analysis. Pure digital simulations are also supported.
[ Download Quite Universal Circuit Simulator ]

3rd Training Course on Compact Modeling

 3rd TCCM, 

 organized as IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium 
 (http://eds.ieee.org/lectures.html?eid=136)

Co-organizer: Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Technical Program Promoter: DMCS, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland

Date: June 24, 2015.
Place: Hotel Bulwar (Lejda room) ul. Bulwar Filadelfijski 18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
www: http://www.hotelbulwar.pl

Final schedule of TCCM:
9:00 Wladek Grabinski, Opening
9:10 Henryk Przewłocki, "Weaknesses and corrections of the classical theory of photoelectric phenomena in the MOS system"
10:00 Juin J.Liou, "Compact Modeling of Junction Failure in Semiconductor Devices Subject to Electrostatic Discharge Stresses"
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Jean-Michel Sallese, "Modeling Junctionless Field Effect Transistors"
12:00 Mike Brinson, "A unified approach to compact device modelling with the open source packages Qucs/ADMS and MAPP/Octave"
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Benjamin Iniguez, "Physically-Based Compact Modeling of GaN HEMT"
15:20 Wladek Grabinski, "Verilog-A Compact Model Standardization"
16:10 Daniel Tomaszewski, "Compact modeling and statistical modeling for parametric yield improvement"
17:00 Wladek Grabinski, Closing

Micro&Nano 2015 - 2nd Announcement

6th Micro & Nano Conference on Micro - Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnologies and MEMs
4-7 October, 2015, Athens, Greece
http://conference-micronano2015.micro-nano.gr

Second Announcement

The "Micro&Nano 2015" Conference will be held at the Fenix Hotel, in Glyfada, Athens, Greece. The Best Western Hotel Fenix is conveniently located in Glyfada, an attractive resort in the south coast of Athens. More details on the Conference venue can be found on the conference website:

<http://conference-micronano2015.micro-nano.gr>

Conference Topics:

• Micro and Nano- Fabrication
• Materials for Electronics, Photonics and Sensors
• Electronic, Optoelectronic and Photonic Devices
• Sensors and Actuators

All abstracts should not exceed the limit of 300 words. Please follow the abstract template that can be found here. The deadline for abstract submission is on 30 June 2015.

The Conference abstracts will be published in the "Abstract Book" that will be distributed to all the participants, at the beginning of the Conference. Selected papers will be published, after peer-review, in special issues of the following international journals:

• Nanoscale Research Letters (the nanoscience related articles)
• Microelectronic Engineering

[read more: http://conference-micronano2015.micro-nano.gr]