[book] Computers, Computation and the Limits of Computability

Thomas B. Fowler (Author)
Computers, Computation and the Limits of Computability 

Paperback – English edition 7 Feb. 2022

Publisher: XZF Technical Publications (7 Feb. 2022)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1734995211

ISBN-13: 978-1734995213

"When asking a simple question about quantum computing, we typically get fragmented answers relating to qubits, superposition and entanglement or new research findings. In Computers, Computation and the Limits of Computability Professor Thomas Fowler addresses the underlying quantum principles such as uncertainty, wholeness, and coherence while meticulously treating the fundamental concepts and key differences between analog-digital and quantum computers.—Inspiring and revelatory, filled with specific information this is an essential book forthe long awaited demystification of quantum computing' 

-- Paul Staubli Technology Consultant, (CH)

Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis

[https://t.co/duNVklIjpY] Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis #semi https://t.co/DyxCusVIhe

— Wladek Grabinski (@wladek60) Feb 28, 2022

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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

How to start contributing to #OpenSource projects on #GitHub

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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).

IEEE-EDS Workshop on Devices and Circuits

Organized by: IEEE Electron Devices Society, UP Chapter 

and Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Venue: Novotel Goa Candolim Hotel, Goa

Date: 24-26 March, 2022

Coordinators: Prof. Yogesh S. Chauhan and Prof. Rik Dey; IIT Kanpur

 

Download Workshop Flyer - Click here

The purpose of this workshop is to enable technical interaction in the broad area of electronic devices and circuits among the faculty, students, research labs and industry practitioners. All the participants are expected to make technical presentations in-person in their research areas (nothing virtual here!).

We will have two types of talks in the workshop -

(1) Invited talks by faculty and scientists from research laboratories and industry

(2) Rapid fire presentations by students (3 minutes each) 

Workshop Program

Wednesday 23rd March		Arrival and Check-in Dinner
		Schedule			Title of the Talk
Thursday 24th March		7.30 - 8.30 am	Breakfast
		8.15 - 8.45 am	Registration
		8.45 - 9 am	Inauguration
	Device track	9 - 9.20 am	Prof. Sourajeet Roy	IIT Roorkee	Machine Learning and Its Opportunities in Device Modeling and Simulation
		9.20 - 9.40 am	Prof. Nihar Mohapatra	IIT Gandhinagar	Cryogenic temperature behavior of LDMOS transistors
		9.40 - 10 am	Prof. Saurabh Lodha	IIT Bombay	2D Materials
		10 - 10.20 am	Prof. Mayank Srivastava	IISc Bangalore	Reliability in GaN HEMTs
		10.20 - 10.40 am	Dr. Meena Mishra	SSPL-DRDO, Delhi	GaN HEMT
		10.40 - 11 am	Rapid Fire talks	Students	Students talks
		11 - 11.20 am	Tea break
	Circuit track	11.20 - 11.40 am	Prof. Udayan Ganguly	IIT Bombay	Neuromorphic Computing
		11.40 - 12 pm	Prof. Chithra	IIT Kanpur	Integrated circuit design for physics experiments
		12 - 12.20 pm	Prof. Shanthi Pavan	IIT Madras	Wideband Filtering Analog-to-Digital Converters
		12.20 - 12.40 pm	Prof. Ankesh Jain	IIT Delhi	Wideband noise shaped ADC designs
		12.40 - 1.10 pm	Rapid Fire talks	Students	Students talks
		1.10 - 2.30 pm	Lunch with Brainstorming session
		2.30 - 6.30 pm	Networking activities
		6.30 - 10.30 pm	Networking Dinner
Friday 25th March		7.30 - 9 am	Breakfast
	Device track	9 - 9.20 am	Prof. Trupti R. Lenka	NIT Silchar	III-Nitride Nanowire LED
		9.20 - 9.40 am	Prof. Abhisek Dixit	IIT Delhi	CMOS Reliability under RF and Cryogenic Operations
		9.40 - 10 am	Prof. Shaibal Mukherjee	IIT Indore	CMOS-compatible Memristor Crossbar for Medical Image Processing
		10 - 10.20 am	Prof. Avirup Dasgupta	IIT Roorkee	GAA Nanosheet FETs
		10.20 - 10.40 am	Prof. Biplab Sarkar	IIT Roorkee	Laterally varying polarity GaN devices
		10.40 - 11 am	Prof. Swaroop Ganguly	IIT Bombay	GaN HEMT
		11 - 11.20 am	Tea break
	Circuit track	11.20 - 11.40 am	Prof. R. S. Ashwin	IIT Kanpur	High-resolution analog-to-digital converters for sample-by-sample conversion
		11.40 - 12 pm	Prof. Shubham Sahay	IIT Kanpur	Hardware Platforms for Neuromorphic Computing
		12.20 - 12.40 pm	Prof. Imon Mondal	IIT Kanpur	Operational amplifiers for wideband receivers
		12.40 - 1.10 pm	Rapid Fire talks	Students	Students talks
		1.10 - 2.30 pm	Lunch with Brainstorming session
		2.30 - 4.30 pm	Networking activities
		4.30 - 11.30 pm	Networking Dinner
Saturday 26th March		7.30 - 9 am	Breakfast
		9 - 9.20 am	Prof. Kasturi Saha	IIT Bombay	Novel diamond based devices
		9.20 - 9.40 am	Prof. K. Prasannajit Pradhan	IIITDM Kancheepuram	Electronic Transport Properties and Modeling of B/N Substitution Doped Graphene FET
		9.40 - 10 am	Prof. Sreenath Vijayakumar	IIT Palakkad	Efficient interfacing circuits for capacitive sensors
		10 - 10.20 am	Prof. Jawar Singh	IIT Patna	SRAM Design
		10.20 - 10.40 am	Prof. Pramod Tiwari	IIT Patna	Gate-All-Around MOSFETs
		10.40 - 11 am	Prof. Krishna Balasubramanian	IIT Delhi	Ultrafast Dynamics of Dark Excitons in Low-Dimensional Semiconducting Monolayers
		11 - 11.20 am	Tea break
		11.20 - 11.40 am	Prof. Shree Prakash Tiwary	IIT Jodhpur	Flexible Transistors for Green Electronics
		11.40 - 12 pm	Prof. Sitangshu Bhattacharyya	IIIT Allahabad	Excitons in Two-Dimensional Materials
		12 - 12.20 pm	Prof. Amit Kumar Agarwal	IIT Kanpur	Novel devices based on 2D materials
		12.20 - 12.30 pm	Prof. Arun Kumar Singh	Punjab Engineering College	Novel Self-Switching Nanodiode and its applications
		12.30 - 12.40 pm	Prof. Santosh K. Vishvakarma	IIT Indore
		12.40 - 12.50 pm	Prof. Rik Dey	IIT Kanpur	Spin-Orbitronic Devices
		12.50 - 1 pm	Prof. Aditya S. Medury	IISER Bhopal	Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Nanoscale Device Simulation
		1 - 1.10 pm	Prof. Rekha Verma	IIIT Allahabad	Thermoelectric Transport Phenomena in Semiconducting Nanostructures
		1.10 - 1.20 pm	Prof. Yogesh S. Chauhan	IIT Kanpur	LNA and PA Design for 5G
		1.40 pm	Lunch

 

Registration Charges

The registration fee includes the access to workshop, stay in the hotel with all meals on all days, and networking activities. Registration fee shown below includes 18% GST.

Type of accommodation	Stay duration	Registration Fee (Rs.)	Comments
Single Occupancy	3 nights (23 - 25 March)	55,000 per person	For single room with single occupancy
Single Occupancy	4 nights (23 - 26 March)	70,000 per person	For single room with single occupancy
Double Occupancy	3 nights (23 - 25 March)	75,000 for two persons	For single room with double occupancy. Suitable for family or group of two participants.
Double Occupancy	4 nights (23 - 26 March)	90,000 for two persons	For single room with double occupancy. Suitable for family or group of two participants.
Triple Occupancy	3 nights (23 - 25 March)	33,000 per person	For single room with triple occupancy. Suitable for students.
Triple Occupancy	4 nights (23 - 26 March)	40,000 per person	For single room with triple occupancy. Suitable for students.