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Over the past quarter of 2001, the Dallas chapter had two interesting lectures focused on emerging technologies in the semiconductor area. The first lecture title was “IEEE 1394b Physical Layer Signaling,” where two main objectives were covered: how physical layer signaling is going to be accomplished on IEEE 1394b and how higher transmission speeds are going to be targeted with current materials and cables characteristics. The second lecture title was “Enabling Advanced Optical Networks–Photonic and Optoelectronic Principles and Components,” where emerging technologies on the optoelectronic field are being created in order to reach faster transmission speeds. The audience was prominent in both lectures with an average of 25 people attending. Future lectures and seminars are going to be posted soon.
–Chuck Yarling, Editor
A seminar, entitled “Red, Green and Blue Light Emitting Devices from Wide Bandgap II-VI Compounds,” was held at the University of Havana on February 6, 2001. This seminar was followed by the annual chapter Workshop on February 8, 2001. This Workshop included contributions in the field of Solar Cells, Semiconductor Lasers, Nanostructures, and Photodetectors. Also, two invited lectures were presented: “Silicon Oxynitrides: A New Kind of Opto-electronic Material?” and “Growth and Characterization of II-VI Semiconductor Thin Films.” A total of 30 individuals from Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and the USA attended the meeting.
–Adelmo Ortiz Conde, Editor
The Tomsk Chapter (Russian Section) in past years has regularly organized the research and technical conferences on various fields. The International Conference on Modern Techniques and Technology (MTT’2001) was held February 26–March 2, 2001 at the Tomsk Polytechnic University with technical co-sponsorship support from EDS. Representatives of different Siberian and foreign universities participated in the conference.
The conference consisted of the works on problems from different fields of radioengineering, power engineering, instrument making, electromechanics, and electric material science. A higher professional activity was demonstrated by participants. A tutorial on the modern level of technical and information means usage in health services was also organized. The conference included the special session “Youth, science, individuality” on globalization of high education problems.
One of the best traditions of Tomsk conferences, the social program, was particularly rich and contained a concert, award dinner, excursion to the Tomsk 398-year historic downtown and a visit to the northernmost botanic garden in the world.
Based on the active support of EDS and ComSoc, many events have been coordinated by the Chapter and the Tomsk Student Branch, such as the Student Paper Contest on Information Security, the IEEE-Siberian conference of students, post- graduate students and young researchers on electron devices and materials (SIBEDEM), etc. For further information about the events organized by the Tomsk Chapter, please visit our web site http://me.tusur.ru/~tieee/ or write by email to ird@tusur.ru.
Finally, the Tomsk Chapter thanks the ED Society for sponsorship and hopes for the continuation of mutually advantageous cooperation.
The 23rd International Conference on Microelectronics (MIEL 2002) will be held May 12-15, 2002 at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia. The MIEL 2002 Conference will be organized by the ED/SSC Yugoslavia Chapter, in cooperation with the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, and Ei-Holding Co.-Nis, under the co-sponsorship of the IEEE EDS, with the cooperation of IEEE SSCS, and under the auspices of the Serbian Ministry of Science, Technology and Development, Yugoslav Secretariat of Development and Science, Yugoslav Academy of Engineering and City Assembly of Nis.
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MIEL is an outstanding European conference, providing an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the recent developments and future trends in the field of microelectronics. Since 1984, there is an aura of internationalization around the MIEL conferences, providing an opportunity for specialists from both academic and industrial environments from the West and East, as well as from the countries of the Third World, to meet in an informal, friendly atmosphere and exchange experiences in the theory and practice of microelectronics.
The topics to be covered by the technical program include all important aspects of microelectronic devices, circuits and systems, ranging from materials and processes, technologies and devices, device physics and modeling, process and device simulation, circuit design and testing, system design and packaging, and characterization and reliability. Based on the past decade’s history, it is expected that the technical program of the Conference MIEL 2002 will consist of about 150 contributed papers by authors from more than 30 countries all around the world, which will be structured into oral and poster sessions. These papers, together with 15 invited papers, which are to be presented by the world leading authorities from the field of microelectronics, will form the solid foundation of MIEL 2002. Two related scientific events, namely the workshops “Power Devices and ICs” and “Microsystem Technologies,” containing six invited papers each, will round off the technical program of MIEL 2002.
Among the invited papers are: “Process-Related Reliability of Gate Dielectric for ULSI Device” (C.Y. Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), “Isolation Issues in Power Integrated Circuits” (G. Charitat, LAAS-CNRS, France), “SOI Devices for 0.1 micron Gate Lengths” (J.-P. Colinge, University of California, USA), “Access to Microsystem Technology: the MPC Services Solution” (B. Courtois, CMP, France), “Microsystems: Research Task, Education Task, Application Fields, Examples” (H. Detter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria), “Silicon-Carbide Parameters for Process and Device CAD Tools” (S. Dimitrijev, Griffith University, Australia), “Challenges Facing Power BiCMOS Integration” (T. Efland, Texas Instruments, USA), “Future Microelectronics Beyond Roadmaps” (S. Hillenius, Agere Systems Inc., USA), “Quantum Well Intermixing for Optoelectronic Device Integration” (C. Jagadish, Australian National University, Australia), “Diamond Technology for MEMS and Electronics: Review of Status and Perspectives” (E. Kohn, University of Ulm, Germany), “Semiconductor Device for Fiber Optical Communication Systems” (L. Lunardi, JDS Uniphase Corp., USA), “Advances in Silicon Carbide Power MOS Technology” (P. Mawby, University of Wales, United Kingdom), “Smart Sensor Interface Electronics” (G. Meijer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), “Circuit Design in Multi-GHz Environment” (V. Oklobdzija, University of California, USA), “SiC Device Technology for High Voltage and RF Power Applications” (M. Ostling, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), “Integrated Hall Magnetic Sensors” (R. Popovic, EPFL, Switzerland), “Benefits of Process and Device Calibration at Early Stages of CMOS Development” (H. Puchner, LSI Logic Corp., USA), “Trends in Power ICs” (C.A.T. Salama, University of Toronto, Canada), “Is Innovation and Competition Crucial in the Power Semiconductor Industry? A Market Perspective” (E.M. Shankar, De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom), “Semiconductor Technologies for Powering Microchips in the Information Age: From Source to Load” (K. Shenai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), “Technology Options for Developing Manufacturable Nanoelectronics” (R. Singh, Clemson University, USA), “MOCVD and PVD Diffusion Barriers for Copper Interconnect” (S. C. Sun, Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co., Taiwan), “Progress in Intelligent Power Semiconductor Devices” (Y. Uchida, Fuji Electric Co., Japan), “Biologically Inspired Optical Vision Sensors” (J. Van der Spiegel, University of Pennsylvania, USA), “Reliability of Microsystems from the Materials Point of View” (J. Villain, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany), “Recent Developments in Silicon Optoelectronic Devices” (H. Wong, City University of Hong Kong), and “Silicon Technology: Nanoscale CMOS and the Road Beyond” (P. Wong, IBM, USA).
The authors of the contributed papers are asked to submit two-page extended abstracts (including figures, tables and references) which will serve as the basis for the paper selection. Therefore, it should clearly state the purpose of the work and the novelty and significance of the results obtained. A cover page of the abstract should include the complete address (including fax and e-mail) of the author to be contacted, as well as the preference for oral or poster presentation. The deadline for the receipt of the abstracts, which should be sent to the Conference Chairman only in electronic form (MS Word, PDF, PostScript), is September, 30 2001. After the paper selection, authors of accepted papers will receive information regarding the layout of papers, transparencies, slides and posters, along with the notice of acceptance.
For further information, please contact: Prof. Dr. Ninoslav Stojadinovic, MIEL 2002 Conference Chairman; Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electronic Engineering; University of Nis; Beogradska 14, 18000 Nis, Yugoslavia; TEL: +381 18 529-326, FAX: +381 18 46-180, E-Mail: nino@unitop.elfak.ni.ac.yu, http://europa.elfak.ni.ac.yu/miel/.
–Ninoslav Stojadinovic, Editor
1- On 24 October 2000, we held the second workshop on Teaching Photonics at Egyptian Engineering Faculties and Institutes. This workshop was held at Cairo University-National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science. There were eight presented papers and the proceedings of this workshop carries the IEEE Catalog No.00EX398.
2- On November 28, 2000, our chapter held a one-day workshop on Teaching Electromagnetics. The workshop was held at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. Eight papers were presented and discussed.
3- We held our 18th National Radio Science Conference at Mansoura University, March 27-29, 2001. Sixty-nine papers were presented on three successive days, each day having three parallel sessions. The Conference is sponsored by the IEEE-EDS and IEEE Egypt Section, and it carries the IEEE Catalog No. 01EX462. During this conference three invited papers were also presented:
“Phased Arrays for the New Millennium” by Dr. Eli Brookner as D.L. from IEEE-ASE, “Study of Limitations on Pixel Size of High Resolution Image Sensors” by Dr.El-Sayed, EID Photobit Tech. Corp., and “New Considerations and Challenges for Millimeter Wave Antennas” by Dr. Yehia Antar, Royal Military College, Canada.
1. On Wednesday, January 17, 2001, at the Holon Inst. of Technology (HAIT) - Holon. The subject of the meeting was “Time of Flight Transient Analysis in a Molecular Doped Polymer using a Dispersive-Trapping Formalism.” The guest lecturer was Prof. Aaron Peled from HAIT and the Chairman of the meeting was Dr. Gady Golan - IEEE-EDS Israel, Secretary.
2. On Tuesday, March 13, 2001, at the Holon Inst. of Technology (HAIT) - Holon. The subject of the meeting was “Development of Piezoelectric Actuators for MEMS Applications.” The guest lecturer was Dr. Shaul Niv from HAIT and the Chairman of the meeting was Dr. Gady Golan – IEEE-EDS Israel, Secretary.
3. On Tuesday, March 27, 2001, at the Holon Inst. of Technology (HAIT) - Holon a meeting concerning “Vacuum Photo-Thermal Processing as a Novel Method for Thin Film Systems Treatment.” Fifty people (most of them students and some academic staff) attended the meeting in Holon, and the Chairman of the meeting was Dr. Gady Golan – IEEE-EDS Israel, Secretary.
–Gady Golan, Editor
The Chapter has been busy over the last few months. Professor Kent Choquette from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gave an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer address on the topic of Vertical Cavity Lasers on December 11, 2000. In addition, on February 12, 2001, Professor George Stegeman from CREOL, University of Central Florida, gave a seminar on Optical Spatial Solitons: An Experimental Overview. The Chapter will also have a new Chair commencing on April 9, 2001. Dr. Malin Premaratne from Redfern Broadband Networks, Melbourne, will take over as Chair of the joint LEOS/EDS Chapter from Prof. Dalma Novak who formed the Chapter in September 1998.
For more information, please contact Dr. Dalma Novak, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parville VIC 3052, Australia. TEL: 61-3-9344-5789, FAX: 61-3-9344-7412, E-Mail: d.novak@ee.mu.oz.au.
During January–March 2001, the AP/ED Bombay Chapter organized four events, listed below.
On January 15, 2001, Dr. Seshu B. Desu from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, talked on “Recent developments in high-density solid-state memories.”
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Dr. Prakash Apte presenting a half-day
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On January 18, 2001, Dr. Narain Arora from Simplex Solutions Inc., USA, and well-known expert in MOS modeling, gave a talk on “Challenges of modeling high-speed interconnects in CMOS technology” to an audience of over 100, including many researchers in CMOS technology. Dr. Arora also spent a considerable amount of time interacting with EDS members in Bombay before and after the talk.
On March 1, 2001, Mr. Sitaraman Iyer from Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, talked on “Modeling a CMOS-MEMS gyroscope”. This talk also attracted a large audience, including many students.
Because of high student interest evinced in MEMS, the AP/ED Bombay Chapter organized a half-day tutorial workshop on MEMS given by Dr. Prakash Apte of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, on March 21, 2001. This workshop was very successful with over 150 participants, including many students. The audience included electrical, mechanical and chemical engineers, besides physicists and materials scientists.
The IEEE AP/ED Bombay has new Office Bearers. They are: Girish Kumar, Chair (gkumar@ee.iitb.ac.in), Arvind Shaligram, Vice-Chair (ads@electronics.unipune.ernet.in), V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice Chair (ramgopal.rao@ieee.org), Mahesh Patil, Secretary-Treasurer (mbpatil@ee.iitb.ac.in), and Juzer Vasi, Immediate Past Chair (j.vasi@ieee.org).
For more information, please contact Juser Vasi, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India. FAX: 91-22-5783480, E-Mail: j.vasi@ieee.org.
The Chapter, in association with the IEEE Delhi section Jamia Millia Islamia student branch, organized a group discussion “Innovations in Semiconductor Technology-Impact on human life” on December 7, 2000. Papers presented were: “ECR Plasma Processing” by Dr. K. Akhtar, “Amorphous Semiconductors” by Prof. M. Hussain, “Quantum Well and Superlattices and its applications” by Dr. Safiul Islam, “Multi Value VLSI Circuits” by Dr. A. Q. Ansari, “Wearable PCs” by Ms. Ritu Jain and “Effect of Miniaturization” by Ms. Shipra Sharma. The event was organized by Dr. Mini S. Thomas and Mr. Sultan Haider and was attended by about 60 students and faculty.
The Chapter celebrated its Silver Jubilee with a function jointly organized with the IEEE Delhi Section on December 19, 2000, at the India International Center, New Delhi. The event was graced by Prof. Bruce Eisenstein (IEEE President) and his wife, Prof. Toby Eisenstein. The Chapter Chair in his opening remarks highlighted the distinctions achieved by the Chapter. This includes the 4 Best Chapter Awards given by EDS and MTTS and acknowledgements for outstanding performances; the growth of the Chapter activities from its modest beginnings; and its future plans. Prof. Eisenstein gave a presentation on the IEEE global activities and the technical initiatives pursued by it for the advancement of science and engineering and fostering the contributions by members in various fields. The event was followed by a Millennium Dinner at which the IEEE President presented Silver Jubilee Momentos to the chapter office bearers and executive members (Dr. Chari, Prof. Devi Chadha, Dr. Govind, and Prof. Bharati Bhat, Prof. S. K. Koul, and Prof. Jitender Bihari). Dr. H. L. Bajaj (Past Region 10 Director) also attended the function.
The Chapter presented a summary of its activities and progress at the IEEE India Council meeting on December 22, 2000, arranged in honor of the visiting IEEE President Prof Bruce Einsentein. The President was impressed by the chapter activities and in particular the IEEE STAR program. As a token of appreciation of these efforts, the President granted extra funding from the Presidential fund. The Chapter Chair thanked the President for his help in building the STAR program.
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Chapter Silver Jubilee function inaugural
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Participants of the NASET2K1 held at
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The Chapter sponsored a one-day workshop on Electromagnetic Compatibility of Electrical/Electronic equipment on January 22, 2001, with IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter and Delhi Section. Dr. Paolo Teniti, Mr. Giordano Malfermo, and Dr. Lamberto Brunelli from Italy conducted the workshop. The technical sessions covered practical problems related to understanding of the standards and their applications, illustrations of main problems occurring in some categories of products and relevant design provisions for power electronics equipment. Over 70 delegates have attended the workshop.
Under the STAR program initiatives, the Chapter joined the National Science Center of New Delhi in hosting the North India Science and Engineering Fair during January 23–25, 2000. The event was attended by 7 states from India with a total participation of 62 teams and featured 47 projects. A total of 400 students and teachers participated in the fair. The winners of the Chapter prizes for this event were: Ms. Chhavi Bhasin (Guru Harkrishan Public School), Gurnam Singh (Jiwan Jyoti Senior Secondary Public School), Visharad Kapoor (St. Lukes Senior Secondary School) and Ankesh Jain (Govt. Inter College Agra) The fair was organized by Dr. A. S. Manekar and Dr. Sivaprasad Khened. Prof. Yash Pal gave away the prizes to the winning students. The Chapter chair also addressed at the same venue on January 30, 2000, 70 teachers from the Central Tibetan School Authority on the theme of Information Technology and use of IT in school education.
The IEEE Delhi Chapter and IEEE student Chapter of Delhi College of Engineering organized an event, Brainwave: Hardware Conceptualization (February 27 to March 3, 2001). Prof. Bhattacharyya and the student branch office bearers coordinated the event.
The Chapter, the Electronic Science Department, and the Electronics Society Kurukshetra organized a national level Symposium on Electronics and Technology (NASET) March 2–3, 2001. The event covered items like science and technology quiz, technical paper presentations, hardware design contest, and discussions on professional activities of the IEEE ED/MTT Chapter. The Prizes for the best entries in this events were won by the following students: For paper presentation: Vikas Kumar, Aashish Bharadwaj, Sumit, Sandeep, Meghna Pathania, Parikriti Gupta, Amit Sardana, and Nitish Singh. For Quiz Competition: Saket Agarwal, Arun, Aashish Jain and Sudeep Ghatak. For Hardware competition: Nakul, Janender, Lovkesh Gupta, Satvinder Singh. The hardware exhibition attracted over 20 entries covering various facets of electronics instrumentation and applications.
NASET 2K1 was attended by over 350 graduate and post graduate students coming from over 10 universities and the inaugural was addressed by Shri R. S. Chaudhury (Vice Chancellor of the Kurukshetra University). The symposium was organized Prof. P. J. George, Dr. Dinesh Kumar, Dr. Vohra, and Ms. Anurekha Sharma, and student members of the ED/MTT at KUK. Prof. J. S. Yadav, and Prof. Narendra Nath presided over final function and prize distribution.
For more information, please contact Dr. K. S. Chari, Director, Micro Electronics & Photonics Division, Department of Electronics, C. G. O. Complex, New Delhi, India, TEL: 91-11-4361464; FAX: 91-11-4363082; E-Mail: chariks@usa.net.
The ED Malaysia Chapter had a General Meeting on February 24, at Palm Garden Resort, Putra Jaya, to elect a new chairman and committee members for 2001 (see picture). Prof. Burhanuddin Yeop Majlis has been reelected as Chairman of ED Malaysia, Associate Prof. Dr. Sahbudin Hj. Shaari as Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Badariah Bais the Secretary, Mr. Ibrahim Ahmad as Treasurer and six committee members to represent universities and research institutions in Malaysia. The elected committee members are: Associate Prof. Dr. Khairi Saidin from Universiti Teknolkogi Malaysia, Associate Prof. Dr. Mat Johar Abdullah from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Mr. Rahman Wagiran from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Associate Prof. Dr. Zaiki Awang from UiTM, Prof. Muhammad Mat Salleh from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Mr. Zaliman Sauli from MIMOS.
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The ED Malaysia Chapter Committee of
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The ED Malaysia Chapter will organize the 2001 IEEE National Symposium on Microelectronics (NSM’01) November 12–13, 2001, at Awana Resort, Genting Highland, 50 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur. The scope of the symposium covers all fields of microelectronics, such as device physics, process technologies, VLSI and MMIC circuits design, optoelectronics, MEMS and sensors, packaging and test, etc. The symposium fee is RM600 for IEEE members and RM650 for non-IEEE members. This symposium is also open to Singaporeans.
For more information, please contact Prof. Burhanuddin Yeop Majlis, Dept. of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. TEL: 603-89265861, FAX: 603-89259080, E-Mail: burhan@eng.ukm.my.
The Chapter was engaged in activities including conducting Technical Talks and in final preparation for IPFA Conference, during the first quarter of 2001. Three technical talks were arranged during the period. These include the talk on “ESD in semiconductor devices” by Dr. J. J. Liou of University of Central Florida and by Prof. Rao Tummala (Chairman, IEEE CPMT Society) on “Global Collaboration of SOP and SOC for the Microelectronic Systems of the Future.” The talks were well attended by engineers from industry as well as academia.
The 8th IPFA conference, scheduled for July 9–13, 2001, has a very good response from the device analysis community. The Advance Program has been finalized. Forty oral papers, describing the advances in the field will be presented in the conference, apart from the keynote paper and two best paper exchanges from sister symposia in USA and Europe. From this year onwards, IPFA will have exchange of Best Papers from ISTFA, USA and ESREF, Europe. The best paper of IPFA99 was invited for presentation in the last ISTFA (2000). Details of IPFA including the advance programme and tutorials can be obtained from the web site at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/ipfa.
The chapter will be hosting the EDS AdCom meeting in July during the IPFA weekend. The chapter is looking for this occasion to foster the ties with other chapters in the region as well as with experts in the field.
For further information, contact the Chapter Chair, M. K. Radhakrishnan, TEL: 65-7705439, E-Mail: radha@ime.org.sg.
–W. K. Choi, Editor
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After the ceremony of the Best Poster
Paper Rewards; from the left, Dr. Moonyong Lee, Program Committee Chair;
Prof. Se-Geun Park, EDS Korea Chapter Chair; Mr. Sung-Bum Bae; Mr. Soo
D. Cho; and Dr. Hyungkyu Lim, Conference Chair.
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The Chapter co-sponsored the 8th Korean Conference on Semiconductors at COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Korea, February 14–15, 2001. This Conference is the largest annual meeting in the Semiconductor R&D field in Korea, and has been organized jointly by the Korean Physical Society, Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea, Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers, and Materials Research Society of Korea. At the opening ceremony, the Korea Chapter Chair presented the Best Poster Paper Awards to Sung-Bum Bae of Kookmin University and Soo D. Cho of Kyungpook National University, who were selected at the last year’s conference. The titles are “High Resistivity Zn-doped Buffer Layer Growth for GaN Based Electronic” and “Modeling and Extraction of Small Signal Characteristic Parameters in Submicron S-MOSFET’s for Microwave”, respectively.
The Program committee of 2001 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Fundamentals and Application of Advanced Semiconductor Devices (AWAD) is accepting contributed papers from interested authors. It will be held July 5–7, 2001, at beautiful Cheju Island. The Workshop is co-sponsored by the Korea Chapter.
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Prof. Yuri Poplavoko’s seminar.
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The ED/SSC Seoul Chapter sponsored the 8th Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS) held at COEX, Seoul, Korea, February 14-15, 2000. The 8th KCS included 20 invited papers, 350 papers in 33 regular sessions, and 120 papers in two poster sessions. Prof. Chun-Yen Chang, the President of National Chiao Tung University, was invited as a keynote speaker for the conference and he presented a seminar on February 14 entitled, “Present and Future Prospects of Sub-0.1µm CMOS Technology For Wireless Communications“. Prof. Chang was also invited to the ED/SSC Chapter meeting on February 15 at Yonsei University to give a talk on “High Lights of Taiwan High Technology Development and the Roles of High Education.” A total of 23 persons attended this seminar from both academia and industry. After the seminar, seven members of the IEEE ED/SSC Seoul Chapter had a dinner meeting with Dr. Chang. There were several discussions on Chapter activities to improve the roles of the ED/SSC Seoul Chapter.
In February and March, the Seoul Chapter hosted EDS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Yuri Poplavko, who presented his research on “High Q very stable dielectric Ceramic and Non-linear fero-electric ceramic” at Chungbuk National University and Korea Telecom.
The newly formed Kansai Chapter held a lecture session on February 13, 2001, to commemorate its year-end 2000 establishment. Dr. Yoshio Nishi, Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments, Inc. and IEEE Fellow was invited to speak on this auspicious occasion. Facing 28 IEEE members from universities and industries at Campus Plaza, Kyoto, Dr. Nishi presented his talk on “Silicon Technology Strategy for Internet Era” as shown in the photo. He lectured on trends in the past, present, and future in terms of silicon devices, interconnects, and integration which also have resulted in the changes in technology R&D model. Silicon technology after becoming the dominant design of integrated circuits has been driven by Moore’s Law and the scaling principle, with DRAM and, later, MPU as technology drivers. Dr. Nishi asserted that, as we gradually move from the PC era toward an “Internet Era,” the strategy for silicon technology has been changing from density/performance driven to more functionality on chip driven. Dr. Nishi, who certainly enjoyed the opportunity to give a talk as well as chatting with colleagues on the Committee of IEEE Kansai Chapter, congratulated on the successful launching of the new Chapter and encouraged technical activity in the Kansai Chapter.
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From left to right: Y. Yamamoto (Secretary),
A. Suzuki (Publicity and Publication Committee Chair), H. Takasu (Educational
and Membership Committee Chair), H. Iwai (EDS Regions/Chapters Committee
Chair),H. Nozawa (Chair), M. Kazumura (Vice Chair), T. Nishimura (Awards
Committee Chair), M. Kuzuhara (Technical Committee Chair).
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The Kansai Chapter Executive Committee meeting was held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, April 4, 2001. At the beginning of the meeting, H. Nozawa of Kyoto Univ., M. Kazumura of Matsushita, Y. Yamamoto of Kyoto Univ., and T. Otsuki of Kyoto Univ., were approved to serve as the chair, vice-chair, secretary, and treasurer, respectively, for two-year terms until the end of year 2002. Then, the role and service of the chapter were discussed. It was decided to form six committees under the chapter in order to enhance the activity of the chapter. They are: 1) Nomination Committee; Chair: K. Taniguchi of Osaka Univ., 2) Awards Committee; Chair: T. Nishimura of Mitsubishi, 3) Publicity and Publication Committee; Chair: A. Suzuki of Sharp, 4) Technical Committee Chair: M. Kuzuhara of NEC, and 6) Educational and Membership Committee; Chair: H. Takasu of Rohm. Finally, the chapter schedule for the next three months, including several DL (distinguished lecture) plans, was determined. The DL information will be sent to the chapter members by e-mail in time.
–Hisayo Momose, Editor
The 2000 VLSI/IEDM Post-Conference Workshop was held at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, on February 16. The purpose of this workshop was to give those industrial engineers, university faculties and students, who did not attend the VLSI Technology Symposium and the IEDM of last year, an opportunity to learn the most recent advances in silicon-based VLSI devices and technologies. This workshop attracted more than 170 participants. Owing to a limitation of the budget, only 130 attendees were allowed. Both IEEE members and nonmembers were invited.
The workshop was organized into six different areas and six invited experts gave the presentations. These included: “Advanced CMOS Device and High-k” (Dr. H. C. Li, NDL), “Logic Technology” (Dr. K. Young ,TSMC), “Low-K and Interconnect” (Dr. B. T. Dai, NDL), “High-K gate dielectric” (Prof. Albert Chin, NCTU), “RF CMOS Technology” (Dr. S. C. Wong, TSMC), and “Flash Memory Technology” (Prof. Steve S. Chung, NCTU). These presentations were organized from more than 50 selected papers in the above two conferences. For each topic, tutorial materials were also included in the lectures such that the attendees could understand the fundamentals of each area. This was the first time that the EDS Taipei Chapter had this activity and it was very successful in terms of the number of attendees.
The chapter announced its new web site early this year. It can be used as a gateway to IEEE members worldwide. From the sitemap in the web, people can have easy access to Taiwan’s academic institutions as well as major semiconductor manufacturing companies located at the Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, which is known as the Taiwan Silicon Valley. The web site is http://www.edsTaipei.edu.tw.
–Tahui Wang, Editor