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USA,
Canada and Latin America (Regions 1- 6,
ED Washington/Northern Virginia Professor Hiroshi Iwai, an EDS
Distinguished Lecturer from the Tokyo Institute of Technology,
delivered a thought-provoking review of silicon technology trends
from past to future at the October meeting. Professor Iwai’s
presentation provided an excellent overview of the history of
electronic circuits, from the first vacuum tube triode in 1906
to today’s ULSI’s circuits. Professor Iwai stated that
Information Technology applications, such as the internet, i-mode,
Bluetooth, cell phones, and game machines, are the driving force
for Silicon technology in the 21st century. Dr. Iwai also provided
a glimpse at future novel device concepts. In November, the chapter co-sponsored a meeting
with the Antennas and Propagation Chapter to hear a lecture by
Dr. William Tang of DARPA on the MEMS Program at DARPA. The Microsystems
Technology Office at DARPA sponsors a wide variety of research
projects in the field of MEMS, with military applications in all
four domains of engagement: air, land, sea, and space. Dr. Tang
discussed current research projects as well as DARPA’s vision
of the future for MEMS technology. EDS Colloquium on Future Trends on Microelectronics
On the other hand, the attendees came from
different places, such as: ON Semiconductor (Guadalajara); CINVESTAV-IPN
(México and Guadalajara); Sim—n Bolivar University
(Venezuela); Campinas University (Brazil); University of Havana
(Cuba); University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); and University
of Illinois (USA). Magali Estrada began the colloquium with a
welcome to all the attendees, and a thank you to everyone who
had made the event possible. Hiroshi Iwai gave the first talk
entitled Silicon Technology Trend from Past to Future from milli
to nano-meters. Dr. Iwai presented a review of the silicon technology
and the trends for nanoelectronics development. All attendees
were interested in the talk, but especially those who develop
technology and work with silicon. Then, M. Ayman Shibib gave a
talk entitled State of the Art and Perspectives on Power Devices
and ICs. Dr. Shibib gave an overview of power devices followed
by state of the art topics and perspectives. At the end of the
presentation, he outlined a technology roadmap. The last talk, entitled Trends in low-cost
electronics. was given by Sigurd Wagner. Low cost electronics
was the first topic of Dr. Wagner’s presentation. He then
followed with information concerning experimental products which
improve the performance of devices and circuits, as well as printing
devices and flexible/deformable circuits. Other important topics
covered were TFTs and Matrix & Cell circuits. By the end of each talk, a question and answer
session was held to clarify possible doubts and to share experiences
and future expectations. Finally, Magali Estrada adjourned the
colloquium. This was a great opportunity to be involved with the
microelectronics area in several ways, from the development to
the application. Visit from Magali Estrada and Antonio
Cerdeira to Venezuela
Magali Estrada, IEEE EDS Distinguished lecturer
from México, presented a seminar “New dielectrics
for submicrom MOSFET” on November 27, 2001 at Universidad
Simon Bolivar in Venezuela. About 40 local students and specialists
attended the conference. Many questions were answered before concluding
the lecture. Europe, Middle East & Africa (Region
8) The All-Russia student conference in Radiophysics
was held in Peterhoff December 11-14, 2001. This conference was
organized by the St. Petersburg State University and the St. Petersburg
State Technical University (see http://radio.stu.
neva.ru/studconf.htm). Over 50 participants, including 35
students from 10 universities and higher-education institutes
of 8 cities of Russia attended the conference. Nine students received
best paper monetary awards from the ED/MTT/AP St. Petersburg Chapter.
Three of these students were also awarded by free IEEE membership
for the year 2002 and diplomas from the ED/MTT/AP St. Petersburg
Chapter. The abstracts of their papers were also submitted for
publication in IEEE Microwave Magazine. The traditional student conference, “Week
of Science”, was held on December 10, 2001 at the St. Petersburg
State Technical University. The moving exhibition of IEEE materials
was organized for participants of the student conference as well. For further information about the next conferences
being held in St. Petersburg and the nearby area, please contact
Prof. Sergei Zagriadski; E-mail: zagriadski@
ieee.org. MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/SSC West Ukraine
The 6th International Seminar/Workshop on
Direct and Inverse Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave
Theory (DIPED-2001) was held September 18-20, 2001, at Pidstryhach
Institute of Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, NASU,
Lviv, Ukraine. The West Ukraine and Republic of Georgia Chapters
were the co-organizers of the DIPED-2001. The Electron Devices
Society provided technical co-sponsorship support, with the inclusion
of the Seminar Proceedings into the IEEE Book Broker Program.
The MTT, AP, CPMT, SSC societies and the Ukraine Section were
among the supporting IEEE institutions. The State post enterprise
“Lviv post” and its general director, Mr. Anatoliy I.
Kydysyuk, provided significant technical support to extend and
to make the Seminar/Workshop social program more interesting. The 42 papers of participants from Georgia,
Germany, Greece, Finland, Israel, Russia, and Ukraine were presented
in the 6 oral sessions. The topics of papers covered the traditional
scientific areas: propagation; diffraction and scattering of waves
in homogeneous and non-homogeneous media; synthesis of radiating
systems and field transformers; restoring the shape of radiating
and scattering bodies; as well as the novel problems such as study
and simulation of electromagnetic field in the complete vehicle
structure; development and modeling the new antenna system for
mobile phones; and decreasing the interaction of electromagnetic
field of mobile phones on the human’s body. At the Opening ceremony, Dr. Mykhaylo I. Andriychuk,
the current West Ukraine Chapter Chair, awarded Prof. Voitovich,
the SSC Society Past Chapter Chair, a pin and certificate for
his valuable efforts to create the West Ukraine Chapter and permanent
contribution to activate the various areas of Chapter activities. The educational and social events were presented
widely alongside with the scientific program. Many young scientists
and students attended the Seminar and received the ED and SSC
Societies promotion materials distributed for the DIPED-2001.
The Seminar participants had the possibility to take part in the
excursion tour around Lviv, which really is an architectural pearl
of Europe. Traditionally, the Best Young Speaker Awards
are granted at the Seminar banquet. This year, Mr. Andriy Radchenko
from Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia won the Best Young
Speaker Award for the presentation, “Adaptive Scheme of Calculation
of 3D Wire Structures by the Method of Moments”. The next annual Seminar/Workshop DIPED will
be held October 10-13, 2002, at Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi,
Georgia. For more information, please contact Dr. Mykhaylo I.
Andriychuk by e-mail andr@iapmm.lviv.ua, and Dr. David D. Karkashadze
by e-mail lae@resonan.ge. MTT/ED/AP/CPMT Saratov-Penza
The Sixth Chapter Workshop, “CAD and
Numerical Methods in Applied Electrodynamics and Electronics”
was recently organized by the MTT/ED/AP/CPMT Saratov-Penza Chapter.
This Workshop was held on December 19, 2001 at Saratov State University.
The main goal of this Workshop was to advertise the benefits IEEE
has for young scientists and postgraduate students. All such Workshops
have been held without requiring any registration or publication
fees for participants, so it is very attractive for young scientists.
There were more than 40 participants from Saratov. After this
workshop, there was the Chapter meeting with the election of the
2002 Chapter Officers. The 2001 year for our Chapter has been marked
as the year of increased seminar activity. Chapter seminars were
held once a month, with the last one being held in December. The
theme of this seminar given was “The influence of Gunn diode
structure on third harmonic generation in the resonance system
of oscillator”, given by Prof. V. Dvinskikh. Now we are preparing
for two big conferences in 2002 in Saratov: 2002 IEEE International
Vacuum Electron Sources Conference IVESC’2002 and Actual
Problems of Electron Devices Engineering, APEDE’2002. For more detailed information, please contact
Prof. M.V. Davidovich: Report related to the visit of the South
Africa ED/LEO Partner Prof. Profirescu visited South Africa as Partner
in August 2001 to stimulate local EDS activities. He is also an
EDS Distinguished Lecturer and gave three lectures in South Africa.
Two EDS/LEOS Chapter meetings were held in Pretoria on 27 August
2001, and another meeting was held in Stellenbosch on 28 August
2001. The Pretoria meetings (a chapter meeting for EDS/LEOS members
and a student branch meeting) were attended by 50 people in total.
The second meeting at Stellenbosch was attended by 14 people. The two talks by Prof. M. Profirescu were
given on “Recent developments in deep submicron devices —
theory and experiment” and “Distance education in microelectronics”.
The second topic was also the topic of the lecture in Stellenbosch. MTT/ED/AP/LEO UK&RI Chapter
The technical programme included presentations
from sixteen different countries and the papers were arranged
in eight oral and two poster sessions (24 oral and 33 poster).
These covered all aspects of modern SiGe, GaAs, InP, GaN and SiC
devices ranging from modelling over circuit simulation and design
to system aspects, with emphasis on material growth and characterization,
wide-band gap microwave devices, Si and Si Ge devices and circuits,
device and circuit modelling and technology, and microwave and
photonic devices and circuits. Invited speakers included: M Missous
(UMIST UK) on “Optical and Electrical Properties of In.48(AlxGa(1-x)),
52P, grown by Solid Source MBE using a GaP decomposition source”;
Mattias Bopp (Atmel Wireless & Microcontrollers, Heilbronn,
Germany) on “RF Silicon-Germanium Circuits”; Peter Seitz
(CSEM Zurich and IMT, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) on
“Smart Pixels”; and Rudolf Schwarte (ZESS Ð INV, University
of Siegen, Germany) on “Dynamic 3D Vision”. It is the tradition of the IEEE UK&RI
MTT/ED/AP/LEO Chapter to support two best papers awards, one each
from the oral and poster sessions. EDMO 2001 awards were presented
to Dieter Smely (University of Technology, Vienna) on “A
Measurement Based Gate Current Model for GaAs MESFETs and HEMTs
Including Self-Heating and Impact Ionisation” for best oral
paper, and Martin Mikulics (Research Centre Julich, Germany) on
“Low-temperature-grown MBE GaAs for terahertz photomixers”
for best poster paper. See photograph. In summary, a well-attended event enjoyed
an excellent technical programme, which had attracted considerable
paper contributions from Eastern Europe. Copies of the Proceedings
are available from the IEEE under IEEE Catalogue No: 01TH8567,
ISBN: 0-7803-7049-X. EDMO 2002 is planned for 18 and 19th November
2002 at UMIST Manchester UK, please contact Dr. Ali Rezazadeh
(address details below) for advance particulars. The Chapter is pleased to announce that the
third of the series of annual European workshops under the acronym
MIDAS (Mm-wave, microwave and rf Integrated circuit Design And
Simulation) is planned for the1st and 2nd of July 2002 at TNO-FEL,
The Hague, The Netherlands. Each year the MIDAS Workshop focuses
on a particular area within the overall scope of integrated circuit
design and simulation techniques over the RF, microwave and mm-wave
frequency ranges, and the 2002 event will focus on “Active
Array Technology - Towards Wideband Integrated Antenna Panels”.
In summary, active array design gives rise to a number of simulation
challenges, and the aim of the workshop is to bring together MMIC
designers, packaging experts and microwave system designers to
discuss current and future needs in the field of simulation and
design of wideband integrated antenna panels. Topics will include:
Simulation Needs For Current Modules - (“mixed signal MMIC
simulation on GaAs and Si substrates” and “noise-and
non-linear simulation for complex waveforms”); Simulated
Packaged MMICs - (“package model extraction”, “combined
EM and electrical simulation” and “electrothermal simulation”);
Ceramics Or Plastics Future Module Technology - (“technology
needs” and “integration of active panels, including
antennas, biasing, cooling”). For additional details or wish
to contribute, please E-Mail Dr.
Frank E van Vliet at vanvliet@ fel.tno.nl, or Dr. Steve Marsh
at steve. marsh@ieee.org. For information on Chapter activities, please
contact the Chapter Chairman: Dr. Ali Rezazadeh, Department of
Electronic Engineering, King’s College, University of London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. Tel/Fax: +44 20 7848 2879. E-Mail:
ali.rezazadeh@kcl.ac.uk.
Report related to
the visit of the ED Spain Chapter Partner
Formal Meetings: (I) 12:00 - 13:00, Chapter
meeting was presided by the Chapter Chair, Professor Ramon Alcubilla,
EDS program discussions was led by Paul Yu (II) 15:00 - 16:30,
DL presentation by Paul Yu Discussion: The Spain ED Chapter has about
100 members that are located all over Spain, making it difficult
to organize chapter meetings for members to attend. Instead, the
chapter organizes a two-day workshop which takes place every 18
months. The last one (CDE 2001) took place in February 2001. The
main objective of the workshop is to bring together members to
present technical papers that are of local interest, such as solar
cells, novel materials, nanotechnology etc., and that are in main
stream of the Spanish ED related industrial community. The past
workshops had been well attended, with 100 attendees. A workshop
digest and CD-ROM were available to the attendees. The registration
fee was very reasonable and the financing of the workshop was
in good shape. The Chapter would like to keep the local nature
of the workshop, but would consider inviting prominent speakers
from other regions to give plenary discussions on emerging areas
of research. The chapter leadership comments on the future
growth of ED membership in the chapter. The on-line availability
of EDS journals are welcomed by the members, however, it also
reduces the tangible benefit that the EDS members think they are
receiving from the society (in the past, the main reason of joining
IEEE EDS was the low subscription rate for the EDS publications).
In the discussion, it was suggested that the IEEE Xplore should
advertise the EDS sponsorship of the journals every time before
the papers were viewed/downloaded over the web. The Chapter Chair
agreed that the Society’s support of chapter activity such
as local workshops and symposia would be very welcomed by the
members. The chapter is very pleased with the support they have
received so far for the workshop. During the presentation of various
EDS programs, some members expressed particular interest in the
Graduate Student Fellowship program, Video Lending Library and
Chapter of the Year program. The chapter was encouraged to coordinate
joint technical activities with chapters of other societies in
the region. It was emphasized that promoting the member benefit
will be essential for the retention and recruitment of members.
The Chapter’s involvement in the nomination of senior members
and award winners was encouraged. The Chapter Partner is very
thankful for the hospitality received from the chapter, and especially
from Professor Acubilla. Region 10 East Asia ED Beijing
In September 2001, the EDS President, Dr.
Cary Yang, and Regions/Chapters Chair, Dr. Hiroshi Iwai led the
People to People Delegation
to visit China. On September 12, 2001, Dr. Yang and Dr. Iwai held
a meeting with the EDS leading group of the Beijing chapter, with
some Chinese scientists and engineers joining the meeting. Dr.
Yang and Dr. Iwai gave an overview of the EDS organization, activities
and bylaws. Professor Fu Jiang Liao, EDS Beijing Chapter Chair,
reported on the chapter activities in 2001. Professor Hiroshi
Nozawa of Kyoto University, EDS Kansai Chapter Chair of Japan,
summarized his chapter activities in 2001. The meeting also included
a discussion on how to have more activities and expand the EDS
membership in China. Following this meeting, the EDS Beijing chapter
did increase its activities at universities and industrial units.
Before the end of the year, there was a number of people from
Beijing, Xi-an and Nanjing who applied to become IEEE and EDS
members.
The EDS Beijing Chapter invited Dr. Juzer
Vasi of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 2001,
to visit Beijing from September 26 to 30. He gave a presentation
concerning new MOS technique at both the Hebei Semiconductor Research
Institute and the Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute.
He also visited some laboratories in Beijing.
The EDS Beijing Chapter organized the showing
of the IEDM videotape short courses on “100 nm CMOS Technology”
in Beijing and Xi-an. This short course was held at the Xidian
University campus, Beijing Microelectronics Research Institute,
Beijing Hua Da IC Design Center and Beijing 9th Semiconductor
Device Factory. Engineers and students felt that this course was
very good for students to understand the new technologies in the
IC field.
The EDS Beijing Chapter co-sponsored the 2001
National Vacuum Electronics Conference, which was held in Guiyang,
Guizhou province, China in August 15-18, 2001. “The advance
of PDP Display”, “Multi-Klystron” and “The
Vacuum Electronics for 21 century” were reported in the plenary
session. One hundred papers were presented at this conference. For further information about the Beijing
Chapter, please contact the Chapter Chair: Professor Fu Jiang
Liao, Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute, P. O. Box
749, Beijing 100016, China. Telephone and Fax: 86-10-64362878,
E-mail liaofj@ hotmail.com. Report of the The Sixth International
Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT-2001)
The Sixth International Conference on Solid-State
and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT-2001) was held at the
Hotel Equatorial, Shanghai, China, from October 22 to 25, 2001.
The conference was sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Electronics
and the IEEE Beijing Section and technically co-sponsored by the
IEEE Electron Devices Society. The number of participitants was
450 from 18 countries and regions, with 127 being from overseas.
The conference accepted 351 invited and contributed papers for
oral and poster presentation. The conference technical program
consisted of one plenary session, one evening panel session, 31
categorized oral sessions and two poster sessions. All the conference
papers are included in two volume proceedings published before
the conference. The presented talks covered the new developments
and highlighted the leading edge technologies in various fields
of solid state and IC technology. Professor Chih-Tang Sah of the
University of Florida and Professor Dennis L. Polla of the University
of Minnesota, USA gave invited presentations on deep submicron
MOS and Bio-MEMS technologies at the plenary session. The 5 parallel
categorized sessions focused on the following subjects: CMOS ULSI
and SoC technology, Cu and low-k interconnect, ultra thin and
high-k gate dielectrics, novel structure MOS devices, SiGe/Si
materials and devices, SOI materials and devices, smart/intelligent
and power IC, Si analog/RF devices and circuits, MEMS and sensors,
wide bandgap materials and heterojunction and devices, nanostructures
and nanodevices, optoelectronic devices, device reliability, modeling,
simulation and characterization, etc. One of the highlights of
the ICSICT-2001 was the Panel Discussion on “The Future IC
industry in Mainland China”. Seven panelists from China,
Japan and USA shared their viewpoints on the perspective, market,
competitiveness, challenge and influence of the Chinese IC industry
in the next 10 years. ED/SSC Bangalore
The new IEEE Bangalore ED/SSC Chapter was
officially approved by the IEEE in October 2001. The officers
of the Chapter are: Navakanta Bhat (Chair, Indian Institute of
Science); P.R. Suresh (Vice Chair, Texas Instruments); and Santosh
Saunkhe (Treasurer/Secretary, Analog Devices); Prof. J. Vasi (IIT
Bombay, India) and Dr. R.P. Jindal (Agere Systems, USA) played
a very important role, as chapter partners, in enabling the new
chapter to be formed. The first event of the chapter, which was
held on December 6 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Prof. Rajesh Gupta, University of California Irvine, delivered
the IEEE distinguished lecture on “Design Technology and
Architectural Adaptation for Deep Sub-micron VLSI Systems”.
This event was very well attended with more than 90 attendees
from academia and industry. The focus of the lecture was systems
and circuits aspects. The second event was a distinguished lecture
on December 14 by Dr. M.K. Radhakrishnan from Singapore on “Failure
Analysis Challenges in Deep Sub-micron Devices”. Dr. Radhakrishnan
also volunteered to be the partner of the new chapter. The lecture
focused on device aspects. The third event was a seminar on 19 December
by Prof. Gautam Sarkar, University of Alaska, Fairbanks on “Development
and Characterization of Low Dielectric Constant Materials for
CMOS and other Microelectronic Device Applications”. The
focus of this lecture was mostly new materials for CMOS technology.
Thus, we were able to address the entire spectrum
from systems to materials in these three events which covered
very well the diverse interests and expertise of the members of
both EDS and SSCS. For more information, please contact Prof.
Dr. Navakanta Bhat, ECE department, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India-560012, Email: navakant@
ece.iisc.ernet.in. ED Malaysia
The ED Malaysia Chapter has successfully organized
the 2001 IEEE National Symposium on Microelectronics (NSM2001)
November 12-13, 2001 at Awana Goft Resort Genting Highland. This
is the third NSM organized by the ED Malaysia Chapter with the
collaboration of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and National Photonic
Group. The symposium was officiated by the Chairman of IEEE Malaysia
Section, Prof. Shamsudin H. M. Amin. The scope of the symposium
covered all aspects of the semiconductor technology, from materials
issues and device fabrication, photonics technology, IC design
(RF and VLSI) and testing, manufacturing, and system applications.
A total of 77 papers were presented. All papers were published
in the Proceedings NSM2001. The participants are mainly researchers
and students from local universities and semiconductor industries
in Malaysia and Singapore. Prof. Kei May Lau from the Department of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, visited the Chapter and delivered a lecture on
Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) for Optoelectronic
and Electron Device Applications. The lecture was held at the
University Malaya on November 22, 2001. For more information, please contact Prof.
Burhanuddin Yeop Majlis, Department of Electrical, Electronics
and System Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Tel: 603-89265861,
FAX: 603-89259080, Email: burhan@
eng.ukm.my. CPMT/ED/R Singapore
Despite the 9/11 event and its aftermath,
the CPMT/REL/EDS Singapore Chapter managed to organize the following
events for the last quarter of the year: Four guest speakers from
the IEEE Reliability Society gave a Special Lecture series on
19 October 2001. The venue for this Special Lecture series was
Nanyang Technical University (NTU), so as to encourage more participation
from industry as well as academic staff/students. Dr. Sam Keene
from Seagate Technology presented “Six Sigma Impact on Reliability”,
Mr. Dick Doyle from Doyle and Associates presented the “Thermal
analysis (Minimize Stress)”, Dr. Alan Street from Integrated
Reliability Laboratory presented “FIB Device Modification
Technology” and Prof. Shuichi Fukuda from Tokyo Metropolitan
Institute of Technology presented “Emotional Engineering:
A New Technology for Product Development”. The turnout was
very overwhelming with 200 attendees for the whole day event with
150 participants from industry and 50 students from universities. The Chapter participated in the EDS DL mini-colloquim
held in November 2002. Prof. K.M Lau from Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, FIEEE, was our guest speaker for the
EDS Distinguished Lecture Programme. She gave a Lecture on “Metalorganic
Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) for Optoelectronic and Electron
Device Applications” on 19 November, 2001 at the National
University of Singapore. The lecture was attended by 30 participants.
See attached picture of Prof KM Lau’s Lecture in Singapore. The tenth technical talk was presented by
Dr. John H. Lau, Agilent USA, FIEEE, Distinguished Lecturer (CPMT-DL),
entitled, “IC Packaging Trend” on 8 December, 2001.
The talk was lively and interactive and 76 participants attended.
The Chapter is currently preparing for the two international conferences
in the year 2002 - IPFA to be held in July 2002 (web site: http://www.ieee.org/ipfa)
and EPTC in December 2002 (website: http://
www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/singapore/ eptc). A new website
for the Chapter was created during this quarter; http://www.
ewh.ieee. org/soc/cpmt/singapore/ Last, but not least, the 2002 committee for
the Chapter has been formed and Dr. M.K. Radhakrishnan was elected
to continue with the Chairmanship for 2002. For more information
on Chapter activities, please email Chapter Chair, M.K. Radhakrishnan,
radhakrishnan@ieee.org
AP/ED Bombay Chapter During September-December 2001, the AP/ED
Bombay Chapter organized the following events: On October 16,
2001, Dr. Rajendra Patrikar of the Institute of High-Performance
Computing, Singapore, gave a talk on “Physical Design Engineering
Activities at IHPC.” He discussed the importance of surface
roughness for greater reliability of VLSI circuits. He also described
other VLSI design activities at IHPC.
The AP/ED Bombay Chapter has established a
tradition of conducting workshops on 'Microelectronics’ in
the Bombay region in order to develop an appreciation amongst
the students for Microelectronics research. In addition to motivating
the students to join the post-graduate programs in Microelectronics
offered at IIT Bombay and other reputed institutions in India,
these workshops also help faculty in various engineering colleges
by providing advanced lecture material and an exposure to research
in these areas. One such workshop was conducted by IIT Bombay
faculty on October 27, 2001 at Fr.C.R.Institute of Technology,
Vashi, Bombay. About 250 participants from various colleges in
the region attended this one-day workshop. Profs. A.N.Chandorkar,
Dinesh Sharma, Mahesh Patil and V.Ramgopal Rao from the EE Department,
IIT Bombay delivered lectures on various aspects of Microelectronics.
Dr. Anil Kottantharayil, Universitat der Bundeswehr,
Munich, presented a seminar on “Low voltage impact ionization
in n-channel MOS transistors” on October 31, 2001. The talk
covered experimental investigation of impact ionization by measuring
the substrate current. Some of the graduate students at IIT Bombay,
who are working on related topics, interacted closely with Dr.
Kottantharayil. A talk on “Technology roadmap challenges
for deep submicron CMOS” was delivered under the IEEE EDS
Distinguished Lecture program, by Prof. Cor Claeys, IMEC, Belgium,
on November 26, 2001. Prof. Claeys discussed a variety of challenges
envisaged in the near future in VLSI technology. Possible technical
collaboration between IIT Bombay and IMEC was also discussed in
a meeting attended by Prof. Claeys and faculty members in the
Microelectronics group at IIT Bombay. On December 3, 2001, Prof. Kunio Tada, Yokohama
National University, presented an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecture
on “Wideband and low voltage waveguide modulators with asymmetric
coupled quantum wells beyond 40 Gb/s.” Prof. Tada described
a novel five-layer coupled quantum well structure, which performs
better than the conventional rectangular quantum well structure.
He also described the “migration enhanced epitaxy” technique
for improved heterointerface flatness. Dr. Radhakrishnan, Philips Semiconductors,
Singapore and Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE EDS delivered a lecture
on “Physical Analysis of Ultra Thin Gate Oxide Breakdown”
on December 13, 2001. Dr. Radhakrishnan described the importance
of device failure mechanisms in understanding and enhancing the
reliability of CMOS devices. His talk covered important aspects
of the failure mechanism study related to the fail site identification
using physical analysis, and the challenges involved in deep sub-micron
CMOS technologies. For more information, please contact Prof.
Ramgopal Rao, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai 400076, India. FAX: 91-22-5783480, Email: rrao@ee.iitb.ac.in. ED/MTT India The Chapter, along with the IEEE Student Branch
of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, organized the All India
Technical Festival “ENCOMIUM” on 8 November 2001. To
encourage young engineers to carry out research, the festival
consisted of a paper contest (Rationale), Software Design Contest
(Eniac) and Quiz (Enigma). About 150 students and 50 faculty members
from all over India attended these events. The ED India Chapter
instituted six awards as prizes for the winning candidates in
the Rationale and Eniac. The awards under Rationale were won by
Ms. Richa Gupta (Indraprastha College, UP) for her Paper on “Enzyme
Field Effect Transistors” and Mr. Sumit Chachra and Mr. Himanshu
Sahani (IIT Roorkee) for their paper on “AI Application to
Signal Processing”. The third award was won by a team from
Jamia Millia. Under Eniac, the contest consisted of Mouse Pointer
Design, Neural Network Simulation, Auto Navigation and Simulation
of Chess etc. The award was won by the REC, Warangal and Jamila
Millia groups. The event was co-sponsored by NTPC, Power Finance
Corporation and IEEE Delhi Section. Dr. Mini Thomas, Branch Counselor
at Jamia coordinated the event. The Chapter Chair served as a panel member
in the India Japan Workshop on New Advanced Materials in Molecular
Electronics (NAMME) organized by the National Physical Laboratory,
New Delhi during 10-11 December 2001. Presentations by prominent
speakers from India and Japan (Profs. Madoka Tokumotu, Keiichi
Kaneto, Kazuyoshi Tanaka) on the developments in nano materials,
molecular electronics materials, bio sensors, molecular electronic
devices, Langmuier- Blodgett films and sensors were given in the
Workshop. The event was coordinated by Dr. B. D. Malhotra from
NPL. The chapter co-sponsored the Xth International
Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices organised by the
Solid State Physics Laboratory and the Society for Semiconductor
Devices at Delhi during 11-15 December 2001. The conference featured
papers in the areas of infrared devices, photo voltaics, opto-electronics,
nano structures, power devices, sensors and MEMs technologies,
VLSI and ULSI technologies, high frequency devices, growth and
characterization and emerging technologies. The conference also
had 4 workshops and poster paper presentation sessions. The event
attracted 450 participants. The India EDS Chapter also instituted
6 Best Poster Paper Awards given to the following outstanding
poster papers: (1) `Plasma deposition of fully crystallized intrinsic
microcrystalline Silicon films’ by V. Tripathi, S. Kumar,
R. Vanderhaghen, B. Drevillon and P.R.J. Cabrarrocas, (2) `Overview
of trench gated MOS-controlled bipolar semiconductor power devices’
by O. Spulber, M. Sweet, K. Vershinin, N. Luther-Kind, M.M. De
Souza and E.M. Sankara-Narayanan, (3) `Analysis of reverse I-V
characteristics of C-Si / PS heterojunctions’, by Md. N.
Islam, S.K. Ram and S. Kumar, (4) `Improvement in breakdown field
strength of thin thermally grown SiO2 by selective anodic oxidation,
by R. Paily, A. DasGupta and N. DasGupta, (5)`Optimization of
window spacing in dual-window high power SPST switch of W-band
frequencies’, by A.K. Gupta, U.C. Ray, R. Pal, P. Dutta and
V.K. Jain and (6) `AlxGa1-xAs/GaAs Structures for HEMTs : MBE
Growth and TEM Characterization’, by D.V. Sridhara Rao, K.
Muraleedharan, R. Balamuralikrishan, T. Srinivasan, R. Muralidharan
and R.K. Jain. The Chapter also sponsored 4 student travel fellowships
for students to attend the conference. The Chapter Chair chaired
a session of paper presentations on power devices. At the invitation of the Chapter, Prof. V.K.
Arora of Wilkes University and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer
visited the Dept. of Electronics Science of Kurukshetra University
on 22 December 2001 and delivered 2 lectures entitled `21st Century
Engineer Ð Entrepreneur’ and `Quantum Engineering of Nano
Devices’. The event was attended by about 100 undergraduate
and postgraduate students and coordinated by Profs. P.J. George
and Anil Vohra of the Electronic Science Dept. The Chapter initiated a major effort of enrolling
new EDS members by having a one week intensive recruitment drive
at Jamia Millia University. As a consequence, a total of 44 new
EDS members (3 full EDS members) were enrolled. The India EDS
Chapter subsidized the EDS membership of these new participants.
ED Kansai
A Univ. DL Meeting was held at Kyoto Univ.,
Kyoto, Japan, 2 Oct. 2001. Dr. Yuu Watanabe, Treasurer of ED Japan
Chapter, Manager of Fujitsu, was invited as the Distinguished
Lecturer. Dr. Wantabe, who is well known as one of active and
energetic researchers in the field, lectured about the technical
trend of compound semiconductor devices for 90 min in English,
though he is a native of Japan. This lecture was one of the English
Lecture Courses organized for foreign students in the Doctoral
Class of Kyoto Univ. this fall. The host was Prof. Hiroshi Nozawa,
the Chair of the ED Kansai Chapter, Kyoto Univ. Dr. Hidemi Takasu,
the Education and Membership Committee Chair of ED Kansai Chapter,
Director of Rohm chaired this DL meeting. The number of participant
was 20 people (8 from Univ., 12 from Companies). It has been recognized
that technical discussions after the lecture significantly contributes
to the activation and encouragement for EDS members in the Kansai
region, Japan. The ED Kansai Chapter deeply appreciates his voluntary
efforts and supports of his company, Fujitsu, with use of this
space. Report on the 2001 International Conference
on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM 2001) “Prospects of Si ULSI Devices for the
Next Ten Years” and “Nano-Technology Strategy and Grand
Challenges in U.S,” provided us with future directions for
the solid state devices and materials society. Furthermore, two
topics, “Next Generation ULSI: Challenge and Breakthrough”
and “What Innovation Can We Expect by Fusion of Nano-Technology
and Bio-technology?”, were discussed in the rump session.
“Recent development of RF-, Optical, Probe, Power, Bio-MEMS
Technologies Changing Devices in the 21 Century”, planned
as a special session, explored the new field of the SSDM. Report on the 28th International Symposium
on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS2001) ISCS is the preeminent international conference
in the field of III-V, II-VI, and IV-IV compound semiconductors.
ISCS 2001 covered wide aspects of compound semiconductors —
including growth, processing, devices, ICs, and applications —
and dealt with the III-V compounds such as GaAs, InP, and GaN,
II-VI compounds, such as ZnSe and ZnS, and IV-IV materials such
as SiC and SiGe. Notable progress was reported in the development
of optical and electronic devices based on nitride semiconductors.
Steady advances were seen in traditional topics such as III-V
based electronic and optical devices, growth and processing, and
characterization. Novel research trends were found in quantum
structures, such as quantum wires and dots, and spintronics, which
are greatly promising for future developments in nanotechnology. Finally, we would like to thank all the people
and the sponsoring organizations, who made the conference successful
and enjoyable both scientifically and socially, for their help
and generosity. The next conference (ISCS2002) will be held
in Lausanne, Switzerland, from October 7 to 10, 2002. Please,
visit the conference homepage at “http://
iscs2002.epfl.ch”. ED/SSC Seoul
In the year 2001, the IEEE Seoul Chapter hosted
3 lectures by distinguished lecturers. The topics covered various
interesting research fields in solid-state circuits as well as
electron devices. A distinguished lecture is followed by a Chapter
meeting on a dinner table to give the chapter members a chance
to get together with distinguished lecturers and to have close
conversations on selected topics. The lecture topics were: “High
Lights of Taiwan High Technology Development and the Roles of
High Education” by Dr. Chun-Yen Chang, National Chiao Tung
University; “High Q very stable dielectric Ceramic and Non-linear
ferro-electric ceramics” by Dr. Yuriy Poplavko, Kiev Polytechnic
Institute, Ukraine; and “Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensors”
by Professor Charles G. Sodini, MIT, USA. The IEEE ED/SSC Seoul Chapter sponsored the
8th Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS) held at Koex, Seoul,
Korea, Feb. 14-15, 2001. The 8th KCS included 20 invited papers
350 papers in 33 regular sessions, and 120 papers in 2 poster
sessions. Prof. Chun-Yen Chang, President of National Chiao Tung
University was invited as a keynote speaker at KCS. He presented
a seminar entitled as “Present and Future Prospects of Sub
0.1 ?m CMOS Technology For Wireless Communications”. The
Seoul Chapter has also sponsored IEEK VLSI and CAD Conference,
held at Kyunghee University, Suwon, Korea on May 12, 2001. To
promote academic developments and student activities, The Seoul
Chapter sponsored 6 papers for the best student award with certificates
and $50 cash rewards. The conference featured 3 tutorial sessions
and 58 regular papers. The number of attendees was about 150.
As a part of annual support of the conferences, the Seoul Chapter
sponsored the SOC Design conference, formerly IEEK Circuits and
Systems Conference, held at Hoam Convention Center, Seoul Nation
University, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 22-23, 2001. The conference had
153 papers presented with 256 attendees. The Seoul Chapter sponsored
$300 for the best paper awards. Three papers were selected and
awarded for the best papers. —Hisayo S. Momose |
