Nov 30, 2007

An industrial view on Compact Modelling

A quite interesting paper that came out in the 2006 ESSDERC, and has now been published in an special issue of the IEEE TED. It has been written by R. Woltjer, L. Tiemeijer and D. Klaassen,
from the Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven.
They review compact modelling from its beginnings, and explain two different examples (the PSP model, obiously, and a compact model for integrated inductors). It is quite interesting as a first (or second...) contact with this world.
By the way, the paper (An industrial view on Compact Modelling) is here.

Nov 29, 2007

MSM 2008

The 11th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM 2008) will be held in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston (Massachussets, USA) on June 1-5 2008, as part of the Nanotech 2008 Conference.

MSM is the main technical forum to present the latest research and development in design, modeling and simulation methods, tools and applications in the MEMS, microelectronic, semiconductor, sensor, materials and biotechnology fields. Process, device and circuit simulation is one of the topics explicitly mentioned. Semiconductors and Microelectronics is indicated as one of the application areas.

The Electronics and Microsystems suite of symposia at Nanotech 2008 has become a premier annual event in the Micro and Nano technologies arena. This Electronics and Microsystems suite of symposia is composed with the MEMS & NEMS, Sensors & Systems, Micro & Nano Fluidics symposia, andthe MSM conference The deadline for abstract submission is December 6 2007.

Selected proceedings papers in the Electronics and Microsystems Track (MEMS & NEMS, Sensors & Systems, Micro & Nano Fluidics symposia, and MSM conference) will be reviewed and invited into a Special Issue of the on-line magazine ‘Sensors & Transducers’ (S&T e-Digest).

WCM'08

The 2008 Workshop on Compact Modeling (WCM 2008) will be held in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston (Massachussets, USA) on June 1-5 2008, as part of the Nanotech 2008 Conference.

The Workshop on Compact Modeling (WCM) is one of the largest event devoted to the Compact Modeling field. WCM has become a very important open forum for discussion among experts in this field as well as feedback from technology developers, circuit designers, and EDA tool vendors.

The suggested topics include all important aspects of compact model development and application: intrinsic models, extrinsic/interconnec models, atom/quantum models, statistical models, and model extraction and interface.

A limited number of papers will be selected for oral presentations and the remaining accepted papers will be planned for poster presentations with oral briefing. The deadline for abstract submission is December 6 2007.

The Chairman of WCM is Professor Xing Zhou (from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). He was the person who created WCM and has made this workshop very successful.

I think that it is a must for Compact Modeling researchers to attend WCM. Many of the last advances in this field are presented there.

IEEE TED and TNT Special Issue on Nanowire Electronics

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology have published a Call for Papers for a Joint Special Issue on Nanowire Electronics.

Suggested topics include Devices, Technology, Applications, Modeling and Quantum Simulations. Compact modeling for circuit design is explicitly mentioned as one of the topics.

The deadline for paper submission is April 30 2008, and the publication date will be November 2008.

Nov 10, 2007

New papers (APL)

Some new interesting papers on this month issue of Applied Physics Letters (APL):

Threshold voltage stability of organic field-effect transistors for various chemical species in the insulator surface
Kouji Suemori, Sei Uemura, Manabu Yoshida, Satoshi Hoshino, Noriyuki Takada, Takehito Kodzasa, and Toshihide Kamata
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 192112 (2007) (3 pages)
Abstract

High performance n-channel thin-film transistors with an amorphous phase C60 film on plastic substrate
Jong H. Na, M. Kitamura, and Y. Arakawa
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 193501 (2007) (3 pages)
Abstract

The influence of visible light on transparent zinc tin oxide thin film transistors
P. Görrn, M. Lehnhardt, T. Riedl, and W. Kowalsky
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 193504 (2007) (3 pages)
Abstract

Flexible programmable logic gate using organic ferroelectric multilayer
Satoshi Horie, Kei Noda, Hirofumi Yamada, Kazumi Matsushige, Kenji Ishida, and Shuichiro Kuwajima
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 193506 (2007) (3 pages)
Abstract

Numerical modeling study of the unipolar accumulation transistor
Stephen J. Fonash, Md Mash-hud Iqbal, Florin Udrea, and Piero Migliorato
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 193508 (2007) (3 pages)
Abstract

Interface effects on the external quantum efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction photodetectors
Y. Kim, M. Ballarotto, D. Park, M. Du, W. Cao, C. H. Lee, W. N. Herman, and D. B. Romero
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 193510 (2007) (3 pages)
Abstract