Mar 3, 2009

ICOE'09

The 2009 International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE 2009) will be held in Liverpool (England) on June 15-17 2009. The conference will take place at the University of Liverpool.

The ICOE conference was created by means of the European Integrated Project called PolyApply, one of the major projects about organic electronics. It has become one of the main conferences on organic electronics.

ICOE covers all aspects of organic electronics including Materials and Chemistry, OTFTs, OLED, PV devices, device modeling, organic circuits and circuit design, manufacture as well as their inclusion in systems. Therefore, it can be a good conference to present papers about compact models of organic devices, since many organic circuit designers may attend ICOE.

The deadline for a 1-or 2-page abstract submission is March 27 2009.

The Conference Chair is Professor Bill Eccleston, from the University of Liverpool.

If you are working on organic electronics, I truly recommend you to attend this conference. The quality of contributions is very good. It has consolidated as the top European conference on Organic Electronics.

Call for ICREA Senior Research Positions in Catalonia

ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) has published a Call for 25 Senior Research positions in Catalonia (Spain).

The successful candidates will have PERMANENT CONTRACTS and can work, as "ICREA Senior Researchers", at universities or research centers in Catalonia. They can choose the institution where they can work. Usually, Catalan institutions are very happy to have ICREA Senior Researchers, so they use to accept the candidate with pleasure.


ICREA Senior Researcher positions are very prestigeous at international level. The selection procedure is tough. Only very strong candidates with excellent leadership capabilities and an outstanding research record will be considered. It is recommended that the candidates have previously led big or ambitious research projects.

The salaries will be in line with those paid in Catalan universities for full professors. They are very good salaries. I
CREA research professors will be subject to an evaluation of their research progress and general performance after a three-year period and subsequently every five years. The evaluations will be carried out by external evaluation committees that will assess scientific production as well as research activity. A positive evaluation will lead to a salary increase. So, salaries can be even better.

The candidates must submit:

1) A single .pdf file (maximum 4 Mb) containing the candidate's CV in English.

2) Two reference letters in English in .pdf or .doc format.

3)
An expression of interest document from the host institution(s).

The candidate must directly contact each institution (university or research centre in Catalonia) that he/she is interested in and obtain the institution's acceptance. The host institution's expression of interest form must be downloaded directly by the institution using the link provided by the applicant. At the link, the institution will find the information needed to submit the form (both electronically and by post). The form must be received by ICREA before 2:00pm (local time) on Thursday, 16 April 2009.

The candidate may seek acceptance at more than one institution. In this case each institution must submit a separate expression of interest form to ICREA (both electronically and by post).

ALL THE DOCUMENTS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. KNOWLEDGE OF THE CATALAN NOR THE SPANISH LANGUAGE ARE NECESSARY TO OBTAIN SUCH A POSITION.


Well, if a senior researcher in semiconductor device modelling is interested in applying for one of this position, I will be happy to host him/her in my University (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona, not far from Barcelona), in the Department of Electronic Engineering. We are the most powerful group in Catalonia in the area of device modelling, and one of the strongets teams in Europe in compact modeling. We participate in several European projects and we are leading the first European project on Compact Modeling. Besides, I obtained this year the ICREA Academia Award, a new award granted by ICREA to the best researchers working in Catalan universities.

So, if you are an outstanding researcher working on semiconductor device physics or modelling and if you are interested in those permanent, please contact me at:

benjamin.iniguez@urv.cat


I will be very happy to make the expression of interest from my institution!!!

Why not a permanent job as a senior researcher in a place with Tarragona, with a comfortable Mediterranean climate, with a very nice and interesting city life, with beaches and mountains, close to Barcelona but much cheaper, and working in a very strong research group, with young and motivated researchers?








Mar 2, 2009

International Conference on Organic Electronics'09

I copy the e-mail from Bill Eccleston, announcing the ICOE'09:


ICOE09 STOP PRESS

The Final Call for abstracts for ICOE(09) runs from 2nd March to 27th March 09 at Liverpool University. PhD postgrads come free. The conference runs from 15th to 18th June. There are special offers on Easyjet for flights to Liverpool: do your booking soon. The award winning website is at http://www.icoe09.com/ and includes hotel details. It includes the world famous Adelphi Hotel of Titanic fame at the conference rate where the Conference Dinner will be held. The estimated number of abstracts is estimated to be 17% higher than last year so overall acceptance rate is likely to be lower. The cut-off point is likely to be before the final deadline. Some oral presentations are reserved for the second call. There will be up to 50 poster places.

Among the invited talks are

Richard Friend (Cambridge): PV

Stephen Choe (Princeton) : nanoimprint

Jan Genoe (IMEC): Circuits and rfid

Jiro Kasahara ( just out of Sony)

Plus 6 others which will appear on the website with abstracts soon.

Feb 27, 2009

MOS-AK/GSA merge

In January 2009, GSA merged its efforts with MOS-AK, a well-known industry compact modeling volunteer group primarily focused in Europe, to re-activate its Modeling Working Group. This working group will help to create a smooth compact modeling interface between the technology (CMOS fabrication) and the IC design. For more information on this working group, contact Chelsea Boone or Wladek Grabinski

visit: EDA/Design Working Groups

Feb 26, 2009

MIXDES'09

I'd like to kindly remember you that the MIXDES Conference deadline is approaching, and that they have a special session on Compact Modelling... I paste here the relevant parts of the email from the Organizing Committee:

Due to some requests and to make this schedule less tight we would like to extend the deadline by one week, thus the paper the paper registrations and file uploads ready for scientific reviews should be completed till March 8th, 2009. Please note that the files for registered papers can be later updated till the final papers deadline (May 18th).

As the organising committee is willing to start reviewers assignment at the very beginning of March, I would like to kindly ask you to proceed with papers' basic data registration (the title, keywords, preliminary abstract) as soon as they are ready. It will be very helpful for us with the assignments. The file uploads can be completed till the deadline.