During this Fall, our Chapter organized small exhibitions of IEEE magazines at small private firms, "Commercial Information Networks", and at the Institute of Electronics Measurements, "Kwarz". The importance of the project is the fact that the Chapter subscribers do not frequently use some copies of IEEE magazines (Transactions and others). It depends on a concrete practical interest. Thus, owners of the copies permitted the collection and use of them at a "mobile magazine exhibition" during the fourth quarter of the year. An advertisement about the planned event was presented during the Chapter annual meeting. In a short period after the meeting, the copies of the mentioned magazines were donated to the Chapter Chair's office. The idea is that a member of the Chapter, who is responsible for the exhibition event, makes calls to institutions and organizations which do not belong to the Chapter and suggests the borrowing by them of the collected copies of magazines for a period of 2-3 weeks. The delivery and return of the mobile library is performed by interested organizations. The benefit to the Chapter is an expected growth of subscribers to IEEE publications during the 2000 year campaign.
The Chapter has started preparatory activities for two main events being planned for next year. The first of these events is the Scanning Probe Microscopy International Workshop (SPM 2001). It is being organized by the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the aim of disseminating the results of research groups and exchanging experience in the solid surface research by means of scanning probe microscopes. The SPM-2001, the fifth in the series of All-Russia annual workshops, will take place in the ancient Russian city Nizhny Novgorod 25-28 February 2001, and for the second time it is technically supported by IEEE. The scope of the meeting will include presentations in the areas of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, atomic-force microscopy, optical near-field microscopy, physics of microcontacts, probe microscopes as applied to development and study of nanostructure properties, and original microscope designs and novel methods of surface research.
A second event, which is planned to be held in September 2001, is the 5th All-Russian Workshop, "Semiconductors-2001" (300-400 participants are expected). It is a great meeting, also organized by the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, while the MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/ SSC Nizhny Novgorod Chapter participates as a co-sponsor. Other main co-sponsors of the workshop are the Russian Ministry for Industry, Science and Technology, the Russian Fund for Basic Research, and other institutions. Basic scientific and engineering topics of the "Semiconductors-2001" workshop will be: Heterostructures and superlattices; 2-D structures; electronic and magnetic properties, tunneling phenomena; epitaxy and related surface phenomena; quantum wells; Surface and thin films; scanning probe microscopies, surface atomic process; 1-D structures and quantum dots; mesoscopic and low dimensional transport; wide band-gap semiconductors: new technology and devices; Lasers and LEDs; new photodiodes; new transistors, etc.
Details of both meetings are available at the web site http://www.ipm.sci-nnov.ru/.
During the last five years, the Novosibirsk State Technical University in Novosibisk-city, Russia, has regularly organized the International Conference on Actual Problems of Electronics Instruments Engineering in co-operation with the Joint IEEE MTT/ED/CPMT/COM/SSC Chapter. This year, the APEIE'2000 has attracted both Russian and foreign specialists for discussions concerning some selected topics of their academic and industrial interests.
The Conference was developed quite successfully and demonstrated a higher activity of professionals.
Vol. 1 – Selected papers covering basic Conference's topics;
Vol. 2 – Electronic-physics processes including Gas Discharge, Vacuum Tubes and
Manufacturing Technologies Facilities;
Vol. 3 – Liquid Crystals and their applications. Materials for Electronic Instrument
Engineering. Devices and Control Systems;
Vol. 4 – Sensor Electronics. Power Electronics. Design and Fabrication Features;
Vol. 5 – Medical Electronics including Lasers, Microwaves and their Application in
Biology and Medicine;
Vol. 6 – Measurements in Electronics Engineering including Microwaves and RF range;
Vol. 7 – Radio Engineering including Electric Hydroacoustics and Hydrolocation
Signals Processing. Modeling and Computing Techniques.
The total number of papers submitted to APEIE'2000 increased to 400. The number of speakers participating in different session presentations was about 1,000 from 40 cities in both Russia and abroad.
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Participants of the APEIE Conference at the Plenary session. |
Based on the active support provided by mother Societies, the appropriate professional groups have been formed by a local Chapter that consists of about 80 members at present. By permanently contacting local professionals, we have understood that there is a good potential for increasing IEEE membership in West Siberia. The APEIE'2000 has recently assisted in consolidating our efforts in this area. As a result, the Novosibirsk Chapter has recently been expanded to include the Solid State Circuits Society. A new LEOS Chapter has been formed in Novosibirsk, as well as an ED Student Branch. Also, a new ED/AP/COM/MTT/EMS Chapter in Tomsk has recently been organized.
We are sure that numerous speakers and attendees of APEIE'2000 have definitely brought new knowledge and a stimulus for future R&D in this fast growing field of modern Science and Technology. There are no doubts that APEIE'2000 has enhanced new contacts between representatives of educational and industry organizations making the Conference a success.
For the past several months, the activities of the ED Romania Chapter included some interesting events, the most important of which was the organization of the CAS 2000 Conference. In April 2000, our chapter organized a technical meeting on High Voltage Diodes on SiC at the Romanian Academy of Sciences. The distinguished lecturers made an outstanding review of the historical developments of SiC devices from the discovery phase and basic technology to modern SiC devices. Future trends of devices based on this semiconductor were also discussed. Over 25 participants from universities, research institutes and the Academy appreciated the benefits of such a meeting.
In May, the ED Romania Chapter organized the annual professional student contest "Tudor Tanasescu" at "Politehnica" University, Bucharest. A total of 35 undergraduate students from all Romanian technical universities took part in two sections of this event: Analog Integrated Circuits and Signals, Circuits and Systems. The examination consisted of analysis and design problems. Eleven students were awarded with PC Peripherals (HDDs, CD-RW units, monitors, printers, etc.), technical books, and IEEE/EDS membership vouchers. The ED Society and Romanian Microelectronics firms sponsored the contest. A significant number of the ED Chapter members were involved in the contest preparation and a strong impact on the students was achieved.
Our chapter is deeply involved in the organization of the 23rd edition of the International Semiconductor Conference (CAS 2000), which is financially supported by EDS. Ten student papers from France, United Kingdom, Belgium and Romania were selected from among more than 25 submitted for this edition. Our chapter will cover the conference fees and accommodation expenses for some of the authors of accepted papers. The excellent response to our Student Paper action for CAS 2000 Conference is the reason for us to consider it as the Best Practice of the EDS Romania Chapter in this year.
The joint IEEE MTT/ED Moscow Chapter was founded in 1996 as the first Russian IEEE chapter. The chapter currently has 39 members. The Chapter Chair is Vadim Kaloshin (E-mail: vak@mail.cplire.ru) and the Vice-Chair is Vladimir Cherepenin (E-mail: cher@cplire.ru).
The level of chapter activities has been steadily increasing during the recent years. The main chapter activity in 2000 was the organization of workshops and recruiting of new IEEE members. The chapter was a technical sponsor of four monthly workshops: Solid State Electronics (Chair Prof. Vladimir Mokerov), Electromagnetism and Materials (Chair Dr. Alexey Vinogradov), Electrodynamics (Co-Chair Prof. Victor Shevchenko) and Computational Electromagnetism (Co-Chair Prof. Yuri Shestopalov). In 2000, the chapter has organized 2 administrative meetings and a total of 14 technical meetings, which were held in the form of seminars with several 30-45 minute reports. The technical meetings included 7 seminars on Physics and Technology of Solid Micro- and Nanostructures (held in the period January-June 2000), 4 seminars on Electromagnetism and Materials (February-June 2000), and 3 seminars on Electrodynamics of Condensed Ambiences (held in May, June and September 2000).
The ED/SSC Yugoslavia Chapter began its activities in 2000 with an annual chapter meeting, held on the 21st of January at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis. Professor Ninoslav Stojadinovic, Chapter Chair, presented the report for 1999 and plan of activities for 2000, which both were supported and adopted. A traditional promotion of new chapter members, followed by a cocktail party, was organized.
The next chapter meeting, at which videotapes from the 1998 IEDM Short Course, "New Generation TCAD," were shown, was held at the University of Nis on the 7th of April. The tapes were borrowed from the EDS Videotape Lending Library and were also used in the STAR program activities. This was a whole day meeting, with a lunch break. Besides chapter members, all postgraduate students from the Department of Microelectronics attended the meeting.
The most important activity of the ED/SSC Yugoslavia Chapter in 2000 was the organization of the 22nd International Conference on Microelectronics (MIEL 2000), that was held 14-17 May 2000 at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia. A detailed report on the conference has already been published in the October issue of the EDS Newsletter.
Our chapter was greatly involved in the organization of the Session "Microelectronics and Optoelectronics", which was held at the 44th Yugoslav Conference on Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Automatics, and Nuclear Science (ETRAN 2000, Soko Banja, 26-29 June 2000). In total, 42 high quality contributed papers were presented in addition to one invited lecture entitled, "Noise in Microelectronics" given by Prof. Milan Jeftic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade).
The EDS/SSC Yugoslavia Chapter, in co-operation with the Yugoslav Simulation Society, organized the 1st Small Systems Simulation Symposium (SSSS 2000), which was successfully held on 4-5 September at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis. Well-known specialists in the field from five countries (UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Yugoslavia) presented eleven papers (four invited and seven contributed). Taking into account the initial success, as well as the interest of prospective participants, our intention is to apply for IEEE technical co-sponsorship for the next issue of SSSS.
The chapter has an ambitious plan for the next period. Several chapter events will be organized on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Nis in November, 2000. The initial activities concerning the organization of the MIEL 2002 conference has already begun, and the list of invited speakers and first call for papers will be ready by the end of 2000. The Session "Microelectronics and Optoelectronics" at the ETRAN 2001 conference will be organized, as well. Regular chapter meetings with invited lectures and videotape presentations will also be arranged. As during last year, the chapter will be actively engaged in the STAR program and in supporting the activities of University of Nis ED/SSC Student Branch Chapter.
For more information, please contact the Chapter Chair, Prof. Ninoslav Stojadinovic; E-MAIL: nino@unitop.elfak.ni.ac.yu.
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ISPS 2000 Participants. |
The 5th International Seminar on Power Semiconductors ISPS'2000, was organised by the IEE Czech Centre in co-operation with the IEEE Czechoslovakia Section and Department of Electrotechnology of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The seminar took place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Prague, Czech Republic, from 30 August to 1 September 2000. All together, 41 participants from 11 countries of three continents took part in this event.
The Seminar provided a forum for technical discussion in the area of power semiconductor devices. During the Seminar, four invited keynote papers, 14 papers in oral sessions (under the headings Device Physics and Technology, Power Bipolar Devices, Voltage Controlled Devices and Power Integration) and 22 papers in Dialogue Session 1 and Dialogue Session 2 presented results of research work.
Papers presented at the ISPS'2000 were of very good quality and a high number (more than 75% of participants) took part in all sessions. Each paper presentation was followed by a rich and interesting discussion. All presented papers were published in the ISPS'2000 Proceedings, and the best papers will be published in a special issue of the Microelectronics Journal.
Besides paper presentations, a round table discussion dealing with present problems of education and research in the field of power semiconductors took place within the programme of the conference. Participants discussed both present problems and future trends to a system approach. The discussion will be summarized by N. Stojadinovic, and important points and conclusions will be published in the Microelectronics Journal.
As a related scientific event, the Short Course on "How to Design Power Semiconductor Devices to meet Challenges of the New Millennium" was given by K. Shenai.
All participants in the ISPS'2000 appreciated the Seminar as a very interesting meeting which provided a good opportunity to discuss important problems connected with the present state of technology and to make contacts in both research and education. The participants also appreciated the friendly atmosphere of the Seminar. They evaluated the ISPS2000 to be one of the best non-commercial conferences in the field of Power Semiconductors and recommended organization of similar events in the future. Vitezslav Benda was delegated to organize the 6th International Seminar on Power Semiconductors in Prague in the beginning of September 2002. Information about the ISPS'02 will be given in the Spring of 2001.
–Ninoslav Stojadinovic, Editor
After the Summer, the ED Sweden chapter arranged a technical seminar entitled, "Next Generation TCAD for Advanced RF Micro-electronics" by Robert W. Dutton, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. The seminar was highly appreciated and attracted about 30 participants.
A huge effort by students and senior researchers from the ED Chapter resulted in a very successful arrangement of the 26th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2000). During September 18-22, ESSCIRC 2000 was organized by the Royal Institute of Technology in the research center Electrum, Kista. This year's conference attracted more than 400 participants which was a record high. The conference's main topic this year was circuits for wireless applications. The location to the "Wireless valley" Kista in Scandinavia helped in attracting so many participants. The technical program of the ESSCIRC 2000 included 8 invited papers, 66 oral presentations and 50 posters, out of 217 submitted contributions from all over the world. In addition, 4 workshops were devoted to "Design Techniques for Mobile Equipment", "CAD for Mixed Analogue-Digital and RF ICs", "RF-Circuits" and "Systematic Analogue Design". In addition to co-arranging the conference, the Chapter also sponsored the best poster paper contest won by F. Bruccoleri, E.A.M. Klumperinck and B. Nauta for the paper, "Generating All 2-Transistor Circuits Leads to New Wide-Band CMOS LNAs".
–Mikael Östling, Editor
The Elected President of IEEE (2001), Prof. Joel Snyder, visited Israel in March 30-31.
Prof. Ady Seidman, Chairman of the IEEE Israel Section, joined him throughout his professional visits to Israeli universities (Technological Inst. of Holon), as well as to some of the Israeli leading industries. Prof. Snyder gave a lecture at the Technological Institute of Holon to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering students. Following his lecture, a discussion was opened on the trends in the electrical engineering industry world-wide. At the end of his trip to Holon, Prof. Snyder visited the Microelectronics Center, directed by Dr. Gady Golan.
The ED Israel Chapter arranged a meeting at the Technological Academic Institute - Holon on May 4th, 2000. The main event at this meeting was a lecture of Mr. Alex Axelevitch (a Ph.D. student) on "Bilayer structure of Pd-Al2O3 thin films for UV vidicon applications". The meeting was organized by Dr. Gady Golan and Prof. Nathan Croitoru, Chair of IEEE-EDS Israel Chapter. The audience was mostly composed of local students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technological Inst. of Holon.
The ED Israel Chapter arranged a meeting at the Technological Academic Institute - Holon in June 1st, 2000. The main event at this meting was a lecture by Dr. Gady Golan, secretary of ED Israel Chapter on: "Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation of Dislocations Structure and Deformation Characteristics In Neutron Irradiated Silicon Detectors". The audience was mostly composed of local students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technological Inst. of Holon.
–Gady Golan, Editor
The ED/MTT France chapter consists of 350 members. It has organized a lot of events in 1999 and 2000. The cooperation with other European chapters has been enhanced. In particular, the 1999 annual chapter's workshop has been co-organized in Saint-Malo with the AP/MTT Germany chapter, the AP/MTT Benelux chapter and the ED Central and South Italy chapter. The topic was "New Semi-Conductor Materials for Telecommunication and Microwave".
A series of 3 summer schools on "Interaction between Microwaves and Optics" have been held in 1998, 1999 and 2000 in the French Alps under Prof. BŽatrice Cabon's responsibility. A summer school on "Systems in Radio-Frequencies" has been organized by Prof. M'hamed Drissi in Rennes in September 2000. All these events have had around 40 attendees.
The 12th "International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and ICs", organized by Dr. Georges Charitat, in Toulouse in May 2000, gathered 300 participants.
The huge European Microwave Week was held in Paris in October 2000 and attracted about 1,500 persons. This week consisted of three major European Conferences (European Microwave Conference, Gallium Arsenide Application Symposium and European Conference on Wireless Technologies) and 14 short courses and workshops. The Week involved a large part of the Chapter members.
In conjunction with some events, two IEEE meetings were organized: the EDS AdCom in May, 2000 in Toulouse, the Divisions I & IV Region 8 Chapters Meeting in October in Paris.
It has been decided to publish twice a year a Chapter's Letter entitled Flash-Info. The first issue was published in June, 2000. This is the opportunity to show to the whole MTT and ED communities the dynamism of their activities. We hope that the IEEE membership does not only coincide with a simple Transactions subscription.
A student branch is being constituted in Toulouse (ENSEEIHT). It will be used as an example for the other French regions.
The chapter organized two workshops both held at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg:
This combination offered a suitable forum for discussion and an exchange of results between experts in the field of simulation and those of HBT technology.
The device simulation workshop has a long tradition with meetings previously held in Lille (1983, 1991, 1999), Leeds (1985,1993), Duisburg (1986, 1994), Leuven (1988), Torino (1989, 1997), and Eindhoven (1996).
Topics of interest, with special emphasis on III/V, were simulation and modelling of III/V devices (HEMT, MESFET, HBT, resonant tunneling devices, quantum devices etc.) including noise aspects and process simulation. The HBT-Workshop covers all relevant areas from epitaxy, process technology, characterization to circuit design and mixed signal issues.
Workshop organization: Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Brockerhoff , Dipl.-Ing. Michael Agethen and Prof.Dr.rer.nat. Franz-Josef Tegude
E-MAIL: Brockerhoff@hlt.uni-duisburg.de.
During the last year the chapter organised a series of seminars:
In November, 1999, Prof. Mikael Ostling of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, (Sweden) as EDS distinguished lecturer, gave two talks on "Silicon Carbide Based Devices" and "Silicon Carbide: Material and Processing," respectively held at the University of Salerno and the University of Naples. Besides a profound introduction into material and process problems, an excellent overview regarding SiC-based new high power and high frequency devices was given. These lectures were attended by about 30 scientists of the region and more than 200 students. The event was also used to present the IEEE/EDS activities to the audience, which resulted in the following affiliation of more than 30 new students to the EDS.
In May, 2000, Prof. Martin Green, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia), gave two lectures, titled "Photovoltaics: Important Issues and Applications of the Next Decade" and "High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells" also within the EDS Distinguished Lecturer Program. These lectures, held in Salerno and Portici and jointly organized with the National Research Centre for Photovoltaics (ENEA, Portici), gave the opportunity to listen to an excellent overview regarding the state-of-the-art of Silicon based photovoltaics, and stimulated discussions between local electron device specialists and students and Prof. Green about the future developments in photovoltaics.
Another event sponsored and co-organized by our chapter was a seminar cycle (June, 2000) in Naples and Salerno regarding information technology. One aim of this event was to bring together academics with the local semiconductor industry. Ing. Giuseppe Savarese, Micron (Avezzano), spoke about "Recent developments regarding semiconductor memories" Ing. Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Research Centre (Rome), introduced questions regarding the "Technology and evolution of telecommunication networks" and Dr. Massimo Melanotte, ST Microelectronics (Catania), gave a lecture on " Non-volatile memories: technology and future developments". In connection with this seminar cycle, also attended by a great student number, the possibility of graduating students to develop their thesis subject in collaboration with industries was discussed.
With the technical co-sponsorship of the EDS, the 7th Euroregional Workshop on Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells was held in Barcelona on October 26 and 27. This workshop brought together the European Groups with research activity on amorphous, nanocrystalline and microcrystalline silicon solar cells.
In addition, the CDE 01 (Electron Devices Conference 2001) will take place in Granada the 15 and 16 February. This Conference, in its third edition, congregates the Spanish groups working on the electron devices field.
–Christian Zardini, Editor
The Victorian ED/LEO Chapter held a seminar at the University of Melbourne on July 10, 2000. The speaker was Dr. Gunnar Edwall from Ericsson Sweden who gave an overview of photonics research activities at Ericsson. More than 30 people attended the excellent presentation.
On August 1, 2000, the Bombay Chapter organized a talk on "Key challenges in gate module for deep submicron CMOS technologies", by Dr. Lucky Vishnubhotla of International SemaTech, Austin, Texas, USA. The talk, which focussed on gate dielectrics in the 1.5 – 3 nm regime, including unconventional dielectrics, was attended by about 80 people.
On August 27, 2000, the Bombay Chapter organized a one-day workshop on "Microelectronics", jointly with the IEEE student branch of the V.E.S. Institute of Technology in Bombay. The workshop presented tutorial and advanced material on several aspects of microelectronics: physics, technology, simulation and design. The target audience was the student body in Bombay, and the goal was to popularize microelectronics among students. The workshop was very successful, and attracted over 150 students from many engineering colleges in Bombay.
The Chapter arranged a screening of the 1999 IEDM Short Course videos on "Sub-100 nm CMOS" on August 29 and 30, 2000. This was attended by about 50 researchers and students working in the area of MOS devices.
On September 6, 2000, the Chapter organized a 2-hour long panel discussion on "Careers in VLSI in India". The panelists included 4 persons from leading VLSI industries in India, and 2 from academia. This event, which attracted about 150 people, was also extremely successful, and helped create awareness about exciting careers opportunities in VLSI now available in India.
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Fibrecomm 2000 delegates. |
A national Seminar-cum-exhibition titled, "Fibrecomm 2000-Future of Telecommunication: Fibre optics, the road to Convergence", was organized by the Chapter jointly with the Fibre Optic Association Inc., India Chapter. The event, which was held at Rama International, Aurangabad on the 1st and 2nd of July, 2000, featured a series of presentations on Fibre optics technology and implementation, fibre optic applications in convergence, fibre optic communication and trends and advances in fibre optics technology and components. The seminar was inaugurated by Mr. Shyamal Ghosh (Secretary, Department of Telecommunications). It contained an exhibition of fibre optics and related device products by leading industries in the area. Dr. Mansoor Saifi (USA), Mr. Michael Magon (Alcatel, France), Mr. Jack Bottoms (Sterlite International Operations), Mr. Akhil Agarwal (Ministry of Railways), Mr. Anuj Srivastava (Dept Telecommunications Delhi), Mr. Anand Jatkar (RPG Cables Mumbai), Mr. S N Gupta (IRCON Intl Ltd.), Col Sachin Dasgupta, (ASCON, MOD), Mr. S K Gupta (VSNL Mumbai), Dr. Anand Srivastava (CDOT Delhi), Dr. Shevegaonkar (IIT Mumbai) and Mr. Ranjan Sen (CGCRI) presented their papers at the Seminar. Dr. KS Chari and Dr. Shroff presented a paper entitled, "Trends and Advances in Fibre Optic Technology: Photonics - Connectivity and Beyond". The Seminar was well attended by 200 participants from industry, research institutes and academia. Dr. Satyan Prakash, Mr. Ashok Panjwani and Mr. Navin Aggarwal and Dr. C G Ravi have taken a lead role in organizing the event.
A 2-day national workshop on "Broad-band Photonics links" was organized by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Pune) during the 27th - 28th August, 2000, with sponsorship from Ministry of Information Technology and the Chapter. The workshop covered areas of broadband photonics networks, fibre optics data links, high speed access networks, Broadband WDM systems, microwave photonics and optical fibre communications. The Workshop also had an interactive session with the industry, research and the academia on the future and trends of photonics. The experts that addressed the Workshop were: Prof. R Nityananda (Director NCRA), Prof. Ananthakrishnan (Director GMRT), Dr. Kumar Sivarajan (Tejas Networks, Bangalore), Dr.V.Sambasiva Rao (Space Applications Centre, Bangalore), Dr. Anand Srivastava (CDOT Delhi), Mr. Vishwanathan (DOT Mumbai), Mr. R Sankararaman, Mr. A Praveenkumar, Mr. R Balasubramaniam, Mr. S Sureshkumar, Mr. Ajith Kumar and Dr. Y Gupta (NCRA Pune). The Workshop attracted about 150 participants across the country from industry, research and academic groups.
Two lectures titled, "Introduction to 2D Semiconductor Process Modeling" by Mr. N B Singh (Scientist, CEERI Pilani) and "CMOS Technologies at Semiconductor Complex" by Dr. D N Singh (Executive Director (VLSI), SCL Chandigarh) were held on the 7th and 11th of September, 2000, respectively, in the Process Characterization Laboratory, Ministry of Information Technology, New Delhi. About 30 researchers attended these discussions.
The Chapter Chair visited the current STAR Schools (Aggarsain Public School, D.A.V Public School and Maharana Pratap Public School) at Kurukshetra on 30th August, 2000. To introduce the STAR program to more regions, schools in Andhra Pradesh are likely to join the STAR batch soon. There was overwhelming response this year and the STAR program attracted about 200 students. The principals of the Kurukshetra schools, Mrs. P. Singh, Mrs. Anita Rawal and Mrs A. Phillip and their STAR faculties participated and planned for STAR events for the next year.
To further the membership drive, the Chapter Chair visited the Electronics and Communication Department of Maharashtra Institute of Technology (Pune) and Electronics Science Department of Kurukshetra University on 29th and 30th August, respectively. As a consequence of these visits, 6 new enrollments to IEEE/EDS were made. A web page for the Chapter has been designed to better inform members, and to encourage members to participate in chapter activities.
The main activities for this quarter are the preparation by the sub-committee of the 8th International Symposium on the Physical & Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA 2001). This event will be held 9 – 13 July, 2001. The first Call for Papers was sent out both by mail and electronic means (e-mail/internet web). The IPFA is organized by a volunteer committee. Currently, it is a bi-annual conference. Looking forward to the millennium challenge, a team is working to make this event as an annual conference.
IPFA 2001 is organized by the Chapter in co-operation with the Centre for Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis and Reliability (CICFAR) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME). The Symposium is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society. The Symposium will be devoted to the fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms of device failures and issues pertaining to device reliability, especially those related to advanced process technologies. The areas that are covered in the Symposium are: advanced failure analysis techniques, dielectric and hot-carrier reliability, packaging and metallization related failure mechanisms, EOS/ESD and CMOS latchup, practical Issues in built-in reliability, reliability and failure analysis in specialist devices (e.g. power semiconductor devices, optoelectronic devices, compound semiconductors and micro electro-mechanical systems. A 3-day exhibition of physical analysis equipment and services will be held concurrently with the Symposium. More information can be obtained from the IPFA web site at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/ipfa.
For further information, please contact Dr. SH Ong, TEL: +65-5592-452; E-MAIL: soon.huat.ong@nsc.com,
-W. K. Choi, Editor
The second chapter meeting was held at Inha University on September 25, 2000 after showing videotapes of the IEDM short course. The tapes were borrowed from the IEEE EDS Executive Office. The number of attendees was 35. The agenda of the meeting was how to effectively take part in the events that the Chapter sponsors next year, and how to encourage scientists and engineers in Korea to join the IEEE.
One of the events that the Chapter has sponsored is the 'Korean Conference on Semiconductor'. It will be held at COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Korea starting February 14, 2001, and now has announced a call for papers. If interested you can visit the web site – http://kcs.cosar.or.kr.
Another conference is the '2001 Asia-Pacific Workshop.' It was held at Okinawa, Japan this year, and is scheduled at Jeju Island, Korea in July next year. It has been jointly organized by the Institute of Electronics Engineer of Korea (IEEK), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan, and IEEE ED Japan Chapter. More information on this Workshop can be obtained from the Secretary, Professor Roh of Sunkyunkwan University, E-MAIL: yhroh@yurim.skku.ac.kr.
The 2000 International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference was held in Tokyo from July 11 to 13 with a satellite symposium of "Application of Synchrotron Radiation to Studies of Nanostructures Materials" prior to the conference. A total of 303 people attended the conference from Japan, Korea, USA, Taiwan, China and other countries. Three special symposia for discussing recent topics were organized; "VUV-EUV Lithography as the Optical Solutions beyond 100 nm Devices", "High-Throughput EB Lithography" and "Bio MEMS, Lab on a Chip". The conference was composed of 23 distinguished invited talks and 123 regular papers as oral and poster presentations. The conference proceedings will be published in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics through the reviewing procedure. This year, two new awards, the Most Impressive Presentation and Young Author's Award were established in addition to the Outstanding Paper and the Most Impressive Poster Awards. The winners will be honored in next year's conference. The next conference will be held in Matsue-City, a beautiful city facing the Japan Sea in west Japan in November, 2001.
For details, please contact Mr. Hiroaki Masuko,
Secretariat for MNC 2000,
c/o Business Center for Academic Societies Japan,
TEL: +81-3-5814-5800, FAX: +81-3-5814-5823,
E-MAIL: mnc@bcasj.or.jp
and look at the MNC 2001 Web Site: http://www.nano.ee.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/mnc/
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TWHM'00 Excursion. |
Dr. Zhour Xing (EDS Distinguished Lecturer). |
The 2000 Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Microelectronics (TWHM'00) sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and The Japan Society of Applied Physics, was held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan during August 20 - 23, 2000. The workshop focused on HEMT and HBT technologies based upon a range of heterostructure material systems including III-Vs (e.g. GaAs, InP, GaN) and group IV (e.g. SiGe) which have broad applications in the areas of wireless systems, global grid communications, as well as signal and data processing. More than 130 people from 6 countries participated and 52 papers including 21 invited papers were presented. The next workshop, TWHM'02 will be held in Japan. For more information, please contact the next general co-chair, Dr. Daisuke Ueda, Matsushita Electronics Corporation, E-Mail: dueda@erl.mec.mei.co.jp.
-Hisayo Momose, Editor
The following are the activities of ED Beijing Chapter for last three months:
1. On July 30, 2000, Dr. Dieter. M. Gruen (from Argonne National Lab. of USA), visited ED Beijing Chapter, and gave a lecture titled "Application of diamond film in vacuum microelectronics and MEMS", above twenty researchers from Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute and Beijing Artificial Crystal Institute attended the meeting.
2. From August 1 to 4, EDS Beijing held her working meeting in WeiHai City of ShanDong Province. Chapter Chair Prof. Fu-Jiang Liao, Chapter Vice-Chair Prof. Shan-Hong Xia, Chapter Treasurer Dr. Jin-Jun Feng and Secretary Qing-An Huang attended the meeting, as well as Southwest Area Liason and Northwest Liaison. In this meeting, we discussed the present status of the Chapter, promotion of new Student Branch and members, and also the academic activities in the future.
3. On Sept. 8, 2000, Dr. Zhou Xing (EDS DL) from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, visited ED Beijing Chapter and talked to our members, his speech title is "Subpicosecond Electrical Pulse Generation by Nonuniform Gap Illumination".
-Tahui Wang, Editor