8th International Conference on Organic Electronics

The 8th International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE 2012) will be held in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) on June 25-27 2012. ICOE'12 will be organized by the NEPHOS Group, of the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Control Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). Prof. Benjamin Iñiguez will be the General Chairman of ICOE 2012.

The conference covers all aspects of organic electronics, including materials and chemistry, transistors (OTFTs), OLEDs, photovoltaic cells, circuits and circuit design, manufacturing and inclusion in systems.

"Modeling" is one of the topics, and of course, it includes Compact Modeling.

DEADLINE FOR A 2-PAGE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: MARCH 1 2012.

The venue is the "Aula Magna" in one of the campuses of University Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona.


Tarragona is located in the south of Catalonia, in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula. Tarraco (its Roman name) 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 Tàrraco a World Heritage Site.

Tarragona can be easily reached from Barcelona Airport by bus and train. It is about 100 Km South from Barcelona. Besides, Reus Airport (less than 15 Km from Tarragona) receives flights from many European cities in the summer.

Speaking about Tarraco's climate, the famous Roman poet Virgil wrote: "The climate blends and confuses the seasons singularly, so that all the year seems an eternal spring." Thanks to its temperate climate, with an average yearly temperature of 23ºC, its clean beaches with fine and gloden sand, and its singular artistic and architectural heritage, Tarragona is one of the most important tourism hubs in Europe.

A Gala Dinner will take place in the evening of June 26. I recommend atttendees to go; there will be no match of the Soccer European Cup on that date, so you will have something to enjoy...

Besides, on June 28-29 (just after ICOE 2012), the 2nd Training Course on Compact Modeling will be held also in Tarragona, organized by the same group at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. ICOE participants will have a reduced fee for that Training Course, which will target many topics related to compact device modeling.

I encourage researchers working on Organic Electronics, including modeling to submit abstracts to ICOE'12.

SMACD-2012

The International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD) will be held in Seville (Spain) in September 2012 as a dedicated forum devoted to Design Methods and Tools for Analog, Mixed-signal, RF (AMS/RF) and multi-domain (MEMs, nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, biological, etc.) integrated circuits and systems.

SMACD 2012 topics of interest include, but are not limited, to:

• Performance modeling

• Power and thermal modeling

• Reliability modeling

• Variability modeling

• Compact device and circuit modeling

• Multi-domain modeling (optoelectronics, MEMs, biological, biochemical, etc.)

• Modeling languages and applications

• Linear and non-linear model reduction

• Circuit and system theory and applications

• Behavioral modeling and simulation

• Numerical and symbolic simulation methods

• Distributed and parallel circuit simulation

• Analysis and simulation techniques for emerging nanoscale devices

• Analysis of reliability effects: aging, electro-migration, BTI, etc.

• Simulation and estimation methods of variability and yield

• Fault modeling and simulation

• System-level specification and simulation

• Novel system-level design flows

• Innovative design methodologies enabled by behavioral, performance, and/or symbolic modeling techniques

• Synthesis methods in multi-domain (MEMs, electro-optical, etc.) systems

• Physical synthesis

• High-frequency modeling, simulation and design

• Low-power design techniques

• Parasitic-aware synthesis

• Variability-aware and reliability-aware design methodologies

• Test and design-for-test methods

• Language-based synthesis techniques

• Optimization methods applied to circuit and system design: high-level synthesis, structural synthesis, sizing, etc.

If you want to know more about the SMACD Conference series, click here.

IM3OLED project to develop multi-scale OLED modelling tool

The EU-funded IM3OLED (Integrated Multidisciplinary & Multiscale Modeling for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) project has officially been launched.

IM3OLED aims to help the OLED industry speed up development by creating new modelling software that allows a more systematic R&D process. This software toolset will predictively model OLEDs in 3D and at all length scales – from molecular to large-area devices. It will include molecular calculations, electrical and optical simulation, 1D-3D light extraction and scaling / integration effects.
An important aspect of software will be the inclusion of dynamic feedback loops, enabling developers to accurately predict how changes in one area of OLED development affect other areas. This will allow multiple OLED properties to be optimised simultaneously.
The overall device efficiency of an OLED depends on many factors:

• the properties of the light emitting molecules
• deposition on to the substrate
• integration into a device
• extracting the light from the active layer and the device
• heat management and more

It is further complicated as many of these factors are interlinked – e.g. how the device heats up in operation may affect the molecules’ ability to generate light and the way light travels through the device.
This makes it extremely difficult to predict how innovations in one area will affect performance in others, leading to a trial-and-error approach in R&D.

Stephan Harkema, project coordinator, said, “IM3OLED will develop, evaluate and validate a predictive multi-scale and multi-disciplinary modeling tool. Making such a tool available will accelerate progress of OLEDs for lighting applications and allow the European OLED industry to strengthen its leading position in this environmentally important, global market.”
IM3OLED brings together industrial and academic partners from across Europe and the Russian Federation and is coordinated by TNO/Holst Centre and by National Research Nuclear University MEPhI.
Industrial partners include OLED manufacturer Philips Electronics and specialist in simulation software SMEs Fluxim of Switzerland and Kintech of Russia.
Academic partners include leading computational physics and atomic / molecular modelling groups from the Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW) and Russian Academy of Sciences’ Photochemistry Center (PCC RAS).
Funded through the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7NMP Grant no 295368), the EU portion of the IM3OLED project will run for 30 months until late 2013.
www.im3oled.eu www.holstcentre.com www.mephi.ru

[mos-ak] MOS-AK/GSA calendar 2012

The MOS-AK/GSA Compact Modeling Committee
have scheduled following four workshops in 2012
<http://www.gsaglobal.org/events/calendar.asp>.
Please mark your calendars and make plans to join us:

*Q1* MOS-AK/GSA Modeling Workshop
http://www.mos-ak.org/india/
DATE: March 16-18, 2012
LOCATION: Noida (U.P.), India

*Q2* MOS-AK/GSA Modeling Workshop
http://www.mos-ak.org/dresden/
DATE: April 26-27, 2012
LOCATION: Dresden, Germany

*Q3* MOS-AK/GSA Modeling Workshop
http://mos-ak.org/bordeaux/
DATE: Sept.21, 2012
LOCATION: Bordeaux, France

*Q4* MOS-AK/GSA Modeling Workshop
http://www.mos-ak.org/
DATE: Dec'2012
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA

Extended MOS-AK/GSA Compact Modeling Committee
http://mos-ak.org/committee.html

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IEEE EDS Webinar: Physics and Technology of Advanced Solar Cells

This email is being sent on behalf of Paul Yu, EDS President,

and Meyya Meyyappan, EDS Vice President of Educational Activities.

Dear Colleague,

As part of our commitment to enhancing the value of membership in EDS, and to advancing the society's mission of fostering the professional growth of its members, we are pleased to invite you to attend a very special Webinar entitled Physics and Technology of Advanced Solar Cells presented by EDS Distinguished Lecturer and IEEE Fellow Prof. Vikram Dalal of Iowa State University.  More info available at http://www.mrc.iastate.edu/NewStaff/VikramDalal.htm.

The webinar will take place on Tuesday, February 14 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time (USA). Register for this event

This event is the follow-up to Prof. Dalal's successful talk entitled Introduction to Physics and Technology of Solar Cells which we presented in December.

Watch Replay.

(Note, you will need your IEEE web account login to register and access the video replay)

Title: Physics and Technology of Advanced Solar Cells
Abstract: The Shockley-Queisser (SQ) limit establishes an upper bound to the conversion efficiency of a single junction solar cell. In this talk, the various approaches to overcome the SQ limit will be discussed.  Multiple junction solar cells, multi-exciton solar cells, intermediate gap solar cells, and photon up and down conversion to increase efficiency beyond the SQ limit will also be addressed.  Multi-junction approaches have succeeded in producing highly efficient III-V solar cells.

In addition, Prof. Dalal will discuss thin film solar cells.  These cells, which use polycrystalline, amorphous or organic materials with inferior electronic properties, are now beginning to be widely used for both large scale utility power and for building-integrated and isolated products.  Prof. Dalal will address the special physical considerations needed to make efficient solar cells out of these materials, including new schemes for enhancing optical absorption and discuss the status of various technologies.

Attendance will be limited to 500 attendees, offered on a first come, first served basis.  As this event is being offered exclusively
to EDS members we request that you do not forward this invitation. Also, given the overwhelming response to our previous webinar,
it would help if you could team up with other EDS members at your institution and thus save a log in port.

Sincerely,

Paul Yu,
EDS President

Meyya Meyyappan,
EDS Vice President of Educational Activities.

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