Announcement of the EDS Graduate Student Fellowship Winners for 2003


In 2000, the IEEE approved the establishment of the Electron Devices Society Graduate Student Fellowship Program. It is designed to promote, recognize, and support graduate level study and research within the Electron Devices Society's field of interest. The field of interest for EDS is all aspects of the physics, engineering, theory and phenomena of electron and ion devices such as elemental and compound semiconductor devices, organic and other emerging materials based devices, quantum effect devices, optical devices, displays and imaging devices, photovoltaics, solid-state sensors and actuators, solid-state power devices, high frequency devices, micromechanics, tubes and other vacuum devices.
The society is concerned with research, development, design and manufacture related to the materials, processing, technology, and applications of such devices, and the scientific, technical and other activities that contribute to the advancement of this field.
EDS proudly announces the two 2003 EDS Graduate Student Fellowship winners. Brief biographies of the 2003 recipients follow.
Detailed articles about each Graduate Student Fellowship winners and his work will appear in forthcoming issues of the EDS Newsletter.

Yu-Long Jiang was born in 1977 in Hebei Province, China. He received his B.S. degree in physics in 1999 and his M.S. degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics in 2002 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Since September of 2002, he has been pursuing his Ph.D. degree in microelectronics &
solid-state electronics at Fudan University. He was invited by Axcelis Technologies Inc. (Massachusetts) to co-develop Ni-salicide technology on ultra shallow junctions from February to August of 2003. He was the winner of 2002 GE Fund Edison Cup Technology Innovation Competition. His current research interests include VLSI technology, device physics and modeling. He has authored or co-authored nine papers.

Javier A. Salcedo was born in Mérida, Venezuela, on August 16, 1977. He received his Professional degree in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), Caracas, Venezuela, in 1999, and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, in 2003.
From 1997 to 2001, he was a member of the technical staff at USB Solid-State Electronics Laboratory. While there, he conducted research on sub-micron MOS physics-based modeling and parameter extraction, embedded systems design, and transducers design for RF applications. He has published ten papers in referred technical journals and conference proceedings, and has worked on the design of innovative electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection cells for emerging MEMS applications at NIST and for commercial communication systems at Intersil Corporation. In 2003, he received the IEEE Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the IEEE Orlando Section.
He is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Central Florida, where his research work focuses on the development of CAD tools for the design and simulation of novel ESD protection cells for integrated circuits and MEMS-based embedded sensor system-on-chip technologies.

Ilesanmi Adesida
EDS Educational Activities Chair
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL, USA

Stephen Parke
EDS Graduate Student Fellowship Chair
Boise State University
Boise, ID, USA