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The 2000 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting will be held at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Francisco, CA, December 11 to 13, 2000. IEDM is the premier conference for presenting advances in silicon and compound semiconductor devices and processes. It is the annual technical meeting of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, rotating in location between Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA. IEDM is the largest semiconductor device conference in the world, drawing attendees from Europe, Asia and the US. High quality contributions from industry, academia and government are all presented at the conference.
The heart of the IEDM is the technical program. No other meeting presents as much leading work in so many different areas of microelectronics. The IEDM offers students, scientists and engineers an opportunity to hear about the latest work being done in their disciplines and related areas and affords them the opportunity to speak directly with the experts working in these areas.
The meeting highlights include three plenary presentations by prominent experts, eighteen invited talks on all aspects of advanced devices and technologies, two evening panel discussions on future challenges to the industry and the presentation of IEEE/EDS prestigious awards.
The areas to be covered in this year's conference are:
CMOS Devices focuses on device physics, novel MOS device structures, CMOS scaling issues, high performance and low power devices. Other topics of interest include high-frequency, analog and noise behavior of MOS devices, SOI device issues and device measurement and characterization. This session will provide attendees with the latest advances in CMOS devices, as well as projections of future device architectures.
CMOS and Interconnect Reliability will cover all aspects of CMOS reliability including both front-end and back-end processing issues. Topics will span a large spectrum including ultra thin gate dielectric wearout and breakdown, interconnect reliability, ESD and soft error issues. In addition, reliability issues for BICMOS and SOI technologies will be addressed.
Detectors, Sensors and Displays play a major role in information delivery. Sessions in this area will cover critical devices, structures, and integration for imaging, displays, detectors, sensors, and micro electromechanical systems. Included in these sessions will be CCD's, TFT's, and organic, amorphous and polysilicon devices. Invited papers in emerging areas such fluidic self-assembly and biological applications of microsystems will be featured this year.
The Integrated Circuits and Manufacturing sessions will cover advances in integrated circuits manufacturing process integration for memory and logic applications including high performance architectures, multifunction integrated circuits, low power circuits, RF and mixed signal technologies. Other topics of interest include technology for failure analysis and yield modeling.
Modeling and simulation are important aspects of electronic device development.
Sessions in this area will deal with analytical, numerical, and statistical approaches to
modeling electron devices, isolation and interconnect technologies.
The Process Technology sessions will cover front-end and back-end modules for fabrication
of CMOS, memory, and Bi-cmos devices. The sessions will cover lithography, etching,
planarization, silicidation, shallow junction formation, interconnect technologies and new
materials including high and low k dielectrics.
The IEDM conference provides a forum for introducing new device concepts in electronics and photonics. This year the Quantum Electronics and Compound Semiconductor Devices sessions will feature the latest results in compound semiconductor and wide-bandgap materials and devices. Topics will cover a wide range including FETŐs, HBTŐs, lasers, photodetectors, molecular scale devices, and optical interconnects.
Solid State Devices are increasingly in demand for varied applications in areas ranging from the automotive to communication industries. Sessions in this area will cover integrated power/current /voltage devices, silicon bipolar transistors, discrete and integrated devices, novel analog and digital devices and technologies, integrated RF components, and single electron devices in silicon and germanium/silicon.
A popular feature of the IEDM is the short course program held the Sunday before the conference formally begins. The two short courses that make up the program will be offered on Sunday, December 10. They provide attendees with the opportunity to learn about new emerging areas and to benefit from direct contact with the lecturers who are experts in the field. Introductory material for general audiences is also included.
This year, the Short Course subjects will be "Advanced Interconnects: Design, Process and Integration" organized by Dr. Jim Ryan of IBM and "Technology for the Internet Era", organized by Dr. Sam Shichijo of Texas Instruments.
The IEDM conference will include three plenary presentations dealing with future trends in semiconductor technologies. Dr. Jiri Marek of Robert Bosch GmbH will discuss "Microsystems for the Automotive Industry." Prof. Shuji Nakamura of the University of California at Santa Barbara will talk on "III-V Nitride-based LED's and Lasers: Current Status and Future Opportunities," and Dr. David DiVincenzo of IBM Watson Research will present "Prospects for Quantum Computation."
IEDM'00 will continue the tradition of holding evening panel sessions on important topics of interest to the electronics community. This year the topics will be: "Emerging Technologies" moderated by Dr. Pierre Woerlee of Philips and "Beyond 40 Gb/s: What technology will work for these applications?" moderated by Prof. Mark Rodwell of University of California, Santa Barbara.
As is traditional at IEDM, there will be a luncheon featuring a guest speaker. This year, the speaker will be Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of "The Annals of Improbable Research." Dr. Abrahams talk is titled, "Improbable Research and the Ig Noble Prizes" and should prove to be an interesting and fun view of scientific research.
The submission date for regular papers and late-news papers has already passed.
For registration and other information, visit the IEDM 2000 Home Page on the World Wide Web at http://www.ieee.org/conferences/iedm or contact Conference Managers Melissa Widerkehr and Phyllis Mahoney, Suite 270, 101 Lakeforest Boulevard, Gaithersburg, MD, 20877, USA; TEL: (301) 527-0900 ext. 103; FAX (301) 527-0994.
The San Francisco area provides many attractions for visitors and we encourage attendees to explore them in the off hours of the conference. The IEDM organizers and committee members look forward to seeing you in December 2000.
Paul Packan
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, OR