Asia & Pacific Region 10

 

Professor Dennis Deppe
Professor Dennis Deppe of the University of Texas at Austin presenting his seminar “Quantum Dots for Lasers and Microcavity Light Emitters”

ED/LEO Australia
-by C. Jagadish

Professor Dennis Deppe (LEOS Distinguished Lecturer) from the University of Texas, Austin visited the Chapter and gave a seminar on "Quantum Dots for Lasers and Microcavity Light Emitters".

COMMAD 2002 will be held in Sydney during December 11-13, 2002 and the Conference Chair is Professor Michael Gal. The Conference Web Site is: www.commad.unsw.edu.au and Conference Email is: commad@phys.unsw.edu.au

ED/MTT India
-by KS Chari

The Chapter has taken the main lead in organizing two national events. The first was a workshop on "Analog and Digital ASIC Design". The event was attended by more than 70 teachers and students from Science and Engineering Colleges of Haryana. The other was a short course on "FPGA based system Design" held from 30/5/02 to 18/6/02 at the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli. Topics covered included VLSI systems, HDL/HLL, FPGA architectures, overview of Verilog/VHDL, Algorithms and ASIC Design tools, Co-processors and Embedded systems, CAD tools from Xylinx, Altera and Vdesign. Over 80 faculty and students attended the course.

During a recent visit (April-June) by the Chapter Chair to SASTRA (Tamil Nadu), CDAC (Hyderabad), REC (Tiruchii) and DCE (Delhi), the extension of STAR efforts were explored. The visits resulted in the fresh enrollments of 13 student members and 3 full members to EDS.

AP/ED Bombay
-by V. Ramgopal Rao

On April 19 2002, the Chapter organized a one day workshop on Microelectronics at the Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, Bandra, Mumbai. The workshop consisted of lectures by distinguished professors from the Microelectronics group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The lectures touched upon the Physics, IC design, and technology aspects of sub-micron CMOS and were intended mainly to generate interest in undergraduate students in these areas. This workshop was attended by over 100 students and faculty of various engineering colleges in and around Mumbai.

The Chapter also sponsored the video recording of the short-course conducted by Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao at IIT Bombay on the Mixed Signal CMOS Design. This course was conducted for the working professionals in the country and attracted over 70 people from about 15 semiconductor industries. There were also lectures by Profs. Vasi and A.N. Chandorkar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Prof. Navakanta Bhat, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The video tapes will be maintained by the chapter and made available to anyone who may be interested in this specialized area.

For more information, please contact Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Tel: 91-22-5767456 OR 91-22-5722545 Ext. 7456, Fax: 91-22-5723707, Email: rao@ee.iitb.ac.in.

REL/CPMT/ED Singapore
- by M.K. Radhakrishnan

Prof. C. Jagadish of Australian National University gave an EDS Distinguished Lecture on Quantum Well Intermixing for Optoelectronics Device Integration on 24 May 2002 at the Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, with about 25 people from industry and academia in attendance for the lecture. On 11 April 2002, Dr. Han Jiangbo of Agilent Technologies gave a Technical Talk on Thermally Enhanced BGAs – Cost Effective Solution for ICs. The talk was jointly organized by NUS MPE Department and was held at National University of Singapore. More than 30 people, mostly from industry, attended the talk. Dr. Tan Cher Ming of Nanyang Technological University gave a Technical Talk on Reliability Data Analysis on 13 May 2002. The talk was attended by more than 20 people and was held at NUS Faculty Club.

The Chapter joined the Nano Wafer Level Packaging forum of Singapore in organizing a half day mini-symposium on Recent Advances in IC and Wafer Level Packaging on 1 April 2002 at the National University of Singapore. The symposium had 6 invited talks championed by Prof. Rao Tummala of Georgia Tech, and was attended by more than 200 people from industry and academia.

The Chapter Chairman, Dr. M.K. Radhakrishnan, attended the first ASEAN IEEE Section Meeting held at Kuala Lumpur on 1 June 2002. A close co-operation in technical activities between the Sections and Chapters in the region has been planned. The Chapter's flagship conference IPFA will be held in Singapore from 8 to 12 July 2002.

For more information, please contact: Dr. M.K. Radhakrishnan, e-mail: radhakrishnan @ieee.org.

-Wee Kiong Choi, Editor

ED Kansai
-by Hiroshi Nozawa

K. Taniguchi, Professor of Osaka Univ.,
Osaka, Japan on 23 April 2002 at
Univ. DL Meeting by the ED Kansai Chapter.

The ED Kansai Chapter would like to report about the technical activities in the second quarter of 2002. A highlight during this term was a University Distinguished Lecturer meeting. The EDS Kansai Chapter arranged a University. distinguished lecturer meeting with Kenji Taniguchi, Professor of Osaka University on 23 April 2002, at Kyoto University., Kyoto, Japan. The host of the DL was H. Nozawa, the EDS Kansai Chapter Chair and Professor of Kyoto University. The title of the lecture was "for Graduate Students toward Circuits Designer to Realize Future Information Society -CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits-." Prof. K. Taniguchi first talked about the background and future prospect of integrated circuits technology. He then lectured on analog integrated circuits design, and finally showed his personal opinion to standing point of students and methods for the education system including facts of his experience in a semiconductor company. This lecture was well received by most graduate students from a viewpoint of his outstanding insights on globalization. The number of participant was more than forty including some people from companies.

- Hisayo S. Momose, Editor

4/29/2002 – Prof. Chenming Hu’s Talk(from left)
M. -C. Chen, Albert Chin, C. Hu (Speaker), Steve Chung (Taipei Chapter Chair), T. -Y. Tseng, B. -Y. Tsui

ED Taipei
-by Tahui Wang

The ED Taipei Chapter has held a series of Educational Lectures and DL programs from March to June, 2002.

On April 29, the CTO of TSMC and also a Professor of UCB, Chenming Hu, gave a talk entitled "Challenges and Promises of Future IC Technology" at National Chiao Tung University(NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. TSMC will probably be the first company to start 90nm CMOS production this year. This talk is focused on the technology scaling which requires an examination of CMOS device scaling strategy, scaling limits, technology advances, and its impact on the growth of the Semiconductor Industry. He emphasized the need for the development of lithography improvement using EUV or X-ray when a device approaches its scaling limit. The talk attracted more than 200 participants.

The DL program was given twice by Prof. J. J. Liou, from the University of Central Florida. His talk was entitled "Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors" and was given on March 11 and June 13, respectively at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, and Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Each talk was attended by at least 150 participants.

On May 6, Prof. C. P. Wong of Georgia Institute of Technology, gave a talk on "Recent Advances in Polymer for High Performance Low Cost Microelectronic Applications," at NCTU. It was attended by more than 150 participants.

Also, on May 20, the Chapter arranged a video lecture of the 2002 IEDM short course given by Dr. T. –H. Tseng. Over 150 graduate students and industry engineers attended the video show.

For more information, please check the web site http://www.edsTaipei.edu.tw.

- Tahui Wang, Editor