Europe, Middle East & Africa (Region 8)
2002 International Conference on Microelectronics
(MIEL)
-by Ninoslav Stojadinovic
The 23rd International Conference on Microelectronics (MIEL 2002) was held on 12-15 May 2002 at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia. The conference was organized by the IEEE Yugoslavia Section and ED/SSC Yugoslavia Chapter in co-operation with the Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Ei-Holding Co.-Nis and under the auspices of the Serbian Ministry of Science, Technologies and Development, Yugoslav Secretariat of Development and Science, Yugoslav Academy of Engineering, Yugoslav Society for ETRAN, and City Assembly of Nis.
Two workshops, "Power Devices and ICs" and "Microsystem Technologies", held on May 12, attracted a lot of interest and were an excellent introduction to the main technical program. As in previous years, the technical program consisted of nine sessions: Power Devices and ICs, Microsystem Technologies, Device Physics and Modeling, Opto and Microwave Devices, Device Physics and Technology, Circuit Design, Device Physics and Reliability, Passive Devices, and Semiconductor Physics and Characterization.
A total of 37 domestic and 103 foreign participants participated in the conference, representing 35 countries from all around the world (Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, and Yugoslavia). There were total of 22 keynote invited papers (11 of them by EDS and 3 by SSCS Distinguished Lecturers) and 118 regular papers (58 in oral sessions and 60 posters) presented. The conference proceedings (two volumes, 796 pages) were published through the IEEE Book Broker Program.
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| Prof. Dragan Domazet, Serbian Minister of Science, Technologies and Development, is giving the opening address at MIEL 2002 |
The keynote invited speakers were: C.Y. Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan ("Process-Related Reliability Issues Toward Sub-100nm Device Regime"), J.-P. Colinge, University of California at Davis, USA ("SOI Devices for 0.1 mm Gate Lengths"), H. Detter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria ("Microsystems: Research Task, Education Task, Application Fields, Examples"), S. Dimitrijev, Griffith University, Australia ("Channel-Carrier Mobility Parameters for 4H SiC MOSFETs"), K. Itoh, Hitachi, Japan ("Trends in Low-Voltage Embedded RAM Technology"), C. Jagadish, Australian National University, Australia ("Quantum Well Intermixing for Optoelectronic Device Integration"), E. Kohn, University of Ulm, Germany ("Diamond Technology for Electronics and MEMS: Review of Status and Perspectives"), L. Lunardi, JDS Uniphase Corp., USA ("Semiconductor Device for Fiber Optic Communication Systems"), P. Mawby, University of Wales, United Kingdom ("Advances in Silicon Carbide MOS Technology"), G. Meijer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ("Smart Sensor Interface Electronics"), A. Nathan, University of Waterloo, Canada ("TFT Circuit Integration in a-Si:H Technology"), V. Oklobdzija, University of California at Davis, USA ("Clocking in Multi-GHz Environment"), M. Ostling, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden ("SiC Device Technology for High Voltage and RF Power Applications"), R Plana, LAAS/CNRS, France ("MEMS and NEMS Technologies for Wireless Communications"), R. Popovic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland ("Bridging the Gap Between AMR, GMR and Hall Magnetic Sensors"), E. M. Sankara Narayanan, De Montfort University, United Kingdom ("Innovation and Competition: Are they Crucial in Power Semiconductor Industry? A Market Perspective"), R.Singh, Clemson University, USA ("Technology Options for Developing Manufacturable Non-Silicon Nanoelectronics"), P. Spirito, University of Naples, Italy ("Thermal Instabilities in High Current Power MOS Devices: Experimental Evidence, Electrothermal Simulations and Analytical Modeling"), J. Van der Spiegel, University of Pennsylvania, USA ("Biologically Inspired Vision Sensors"), H. Wong, City University of Hong Kong ("Recent Developments in Silicon Optoelectronic Devices"), and P. Wong, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA ("Field Effect Transistors-From Silicon MOSFETs to Carbon Nanotube FETs").
Based on the evaluation of the quality of the papers and presentations, three Best Paper Awards were presented to: V. Liberali (University of Pavia, Italy) for an oral paper "Evaluation of Epi Layer Resistivity Effects in Mixed-Signal Submicron CMOS Integrated Circuits"; G. Reeves (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) for a poster paper "Influence of Via Liner Properties on the Current Density and Resistance of Vias"; and N. Nenadovic (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) for a student paper "A Novel Vertical DMOS Transistor in SOA Technology for RF-Power Applications". The international scientific journal Microelectronics Reliability also awarded the paper "Nature of Hot Carrier Damage in Spacer Oxide of LDD n-MOSFETs" by S. Manhas et al., De Montfort University, United Kingdom.
Among the best traditions of MIEL, the social program of this year's conference issue was particularly rich, with a conference banquet and gala-dinner as highlights. In general, besides the high quality of presentations, MIEL conferences are flavored by the friendly atmosphere and great hospitality of the organizers and people of Nis. This special charm adds to very positive impressions that the participants bring back from MIEL and Nis, and is one of the reasons why one rarely attends MIEL just once: one who comes once, will almost certainly come again. So, we are very much looking forward to welcoming old and new friends at MIEL 2004 in Nis.
ED/SSC Novosibirsk State Technical University
(NSTU) Student Branch
-by Alexander V. Gridchin
The activity of our Student Branch through last year is marked with some important events.
The joining campaign 2002 resulted in increasing the amount of women in our Student Branch. As a result, the program 'Women in Engineering' was established. The participation of a delegation of women in the SibEDEM-2002 Workshop (Tomsk, March 2002) is the first event under this program. Also, the joining campaign is allowed to establish the new student group for the Microwave Theory and Technology Society.
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| The 1st IEEE Siberian Russian Chapter Chairs Meeting (NSTU, November, 2001) |
In November 2001, the Counselor of the Student Branch, Associate Professor. Alexander V. Gridchin, was elected as EDS Newsletter Editor for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for the term of 3 years. Also, the first meeting of the Establishing Committee for creating an IEEE Siberian Section was held at NSTU. This meeting joined the representatives of all Siberian chapters and Student Branches and allowed the start of good scientific and professional co-operation with these chapters and student branches.
Also, our students attended the 3rd Russian Conference of Young Specialists in Semiconductor Physics, which was held in St. Petersburg in December, 2001. The visit was useful for discussing the advanced technologies in designing the microsystems (MEMS).
The lecture on modern advances in designing the piezoresistive pressure sensors was presented by Associate Professor Alexander V. Gridchin in KAIST (the Republic of South Korea) in December, 2001 with great success.
The annual conference of graduate and postgraduate students 'Days of the science-2002' was held in NSTU in April, 2002 with wide participation of IEEE student members.
Our Student Branch was represented in the Student Branch Congress 2002, which was held in Egypt in May, 2002.
Some students of our IEEE Student Branch participated in the 3rd IEEE-Russian Conference on High Power Microwave Electronics ME-MIA'2001 (NSTU, September, 2001) and in the 6th Korean-Russian Symposium KORUS'2002 (NSTU, June, 2002).
The 3rd Siberian Russian Workshop and Tutorial was successfully held at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), Novosibirsk, Russia July 1-5. The total number of participants was over 100 and many countries like Russia, Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Republic of South Korea, Australia, Brazil were represented at this Workshop.
MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/SSC West Ukraine
-by Mykhailo I. Andriychuk
The International Conference "Modern Problems of Radio Engineering, Telecommunications and Computer Science (TCSET-2002)" was held in Lviv-Slavsko, Ukraine, February 18-23, 2002. The Conference was organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Lviv Polytechnic National University (LPNU) and was devoted to the 50th anniversary of Radio Engineering Faculty of LPNU. Technical co-sponsorship was provided by EDS. The Conference Proceedings were published and included in the IEEE Book Broker Program.
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| Mr. Volodymir Ostap receives the Best Young Speakers Award. |
174 oral and poster presentations from Bosnia and Hercogovina, Egypt, Columbia, Lithuania, Poland, France, Yugoslavia, Russia, and Ukraine were included in the conference schedule. 120 scientists, including 51 Ph.D. students, took part in the conference.
The conference sections were devoted to:
o Mathematical Modeling of Signals, Circuits and Fields;
o Methods and Means of Information Selection and Processing;
o Radioelectronic Equipment and Telecommunication Devices;
o Signal and Image Processing in Radioelectronic and Telecommunication
Systems;
o Biomedical Devices and Technologies;
o Behavioral Modeling of Semiconductor Devices, Circuits and Systems;
o Information - Computer Technologies and Telecommunication Systems;
o Modern Problems of Training Specialists in the Field of Radioelectronics,
Telecommunications and Computer Technology.
The Best Young Speaker Awards were established by the West Ukraine Chapter and presented at the conference. The winter Carpathian Mountains provided good active relaxation for all participants of the conference.
The Organizing Committee thanks everybody who brought their own experience and results of investigations into the creative atmosphere of the conference. For more information, please contact the Conference Chair, Prof. Ivan Prudyus iprudyus@polynet.lviv.ua, and the Conference Web site http://www.polynet. lviv.ua/TCSET2002.
-Alexander V. Gridchin, Editor
ED Poland
-by Andrzej Napieralski
As announced in the previous EDS Newsletter, the 9th International Conference MIXDES 2002 was successfully held in Wroclaw, Poland, June 20-22, 2002. The meeting was organized by The Technical University of Lodz, Poland, together with The Wroclaw University of Technologyand The Warsaw University of Technology. The conference was co-sponsored by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., the IEEE Poland Section - ED & CAS Chapter, REASON - Reasearch and Trainning Action for System on Chip Design IST-2000-30193 and The Polish State Committee for Scientific Research.
The conference was attended by about 150 scientists from 27 countries. During the conference, 5 invited papers, including the paper by the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Xing Zhou, and over 140 regular papers were presented at oral, poster and special sessions.
The conference covered the most important issues in modern electronics. The most interesting presentations, appointed by the session chairmen were designated as distinguished. Additionally, the special IEEE EDS Polish Chapter Award was presented to B. Calvo, S. Celma, P.A. Martinez and M.T. Sanz for the paper entitled "Novel High Performance CMOS Current Conveyor". All the distinguished papers will be recommended for publication in one of the following journals: "Microelectronics Reliability", "Electron Technology Internet Journal" and "Radioelectronics & Informatics". After the lecture of Prof. Xing Zhou, the IEEE Poland Section held a meeting. The matters concerning the activities of the IEEE Poland Section were discussed. Additionally, during the tourist activities, the participants had the chance to learn more about Wroclaw, one of the most beautiful Polish cities.
In order to mark the first decade of the MIXDES conferences, next year's 10th Conference will be held in the home city of the organizers, Lodz, Poland. The Preliminary Call for Papers is already available at http://www.mixdes.org/downloads/ call2003.pdf. More information about the MIXDES Conferences can be found at http://www.mixdes.org.
MTT/ED/AP Lithuania
-by Irina Naidionova
As we informed you earlier in our reports about the IEEE MTT/ED/AP Lithuania Chapter activities, it became a good tradition to carry out joint workshops together with IEEE sections from other countries and regions. This year we got into close professional contact with Da Yeh University of Taiwan and the IEEE AP/MTT Taipei Chapter. Chair of the Chapter is Prof. Dau-Chyrh Chang.
In April, 2002 the representatives of the IEEE MTT/ED/AP Lithuania Chapter held a joint technical workshop at Da Yeh University together with the IEEE AP/MTT Taipei Chapter. Speakers, Dr. B. Levitas and S. Charchenko gave a talk entitled "Antenna/RCS/ISAR Time domain measurements".
We would like to inform you that a reciprocal joint technical workshop was held in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 3-5, entitled "Time Domain Antenna Measurement". The speakers were Prof. Dau-Chyrh Chang from Da Yeh University of Taiwan, and Dr. Boris Levitas, Dr. Henryk Alenkovich, Aleksandr Minin, Sergej Charchenko and other specialists of Geozondas company. The workshop was successful. Antenna measurement specialists and technicians attended the workshop. New opportunities of Time and Frequency Domains application in antenna measurement by using equipment of Geozondas company were discussed.
The next technical workshop will probably be held in Taiwan on August 31. Attendance of 50 engineers and technicians from Taiwan and 5-7 specialists from the Geozondas company, Vilnius, is expected. The workshop program envisages demonstration of Geozondas equipment for Antenna Measurement in Time and Frequency Domains.
-Andrzej Napieralski, Editor
ED Israel
-by Chair Chapter - Prof. Nathan Croitoru,
Secretary - Dr. Gady Golan;
1. On Sunday, March 17th 2002, at the Holon Inst. of Technology (HAIT) - Holon.
Subject of meeting: "Plane plasma discharge for microelectronics
applications", Guest lecturer was Mr. Alex Axelevich from
HAIT. Chairmen of the meeting: Prof. Nathan Croitoru and Dr. Gady
Golan - 35 people (most of them were students and academic staff)
attended the meeting in Holon.
2. On Sunday, June 2nd 2002, at the Holon Inst. of Technology
(HAIT) - Holon.
Subject of meeting: "Satellite Communications - Review", Guest lecturer was Prof. Yaakov Gavan from HAIT. Chairmen of the meeting: Prof. Nathan Croitoru and Dr. Gady Golan - 20 people (most of them were students and academic staff) attended the meeting in Holon.
MTT/ED/AP/LEO UK&RI
-by Terry Oxley
Major activities may be summarised as:-
15th to 17th May 2002 - The first Wireless Design Conference (WDC 2002), supported by Agilent Technologies and the local IEEE UK&RI MTT/ED/AP/LEO Chapter was held at the Business Design Centre, London, UK. This conference, organised by CMP Europe the publishers of Microwave Engineering Europe, represented a newly launched event. It focused on the subjects that are important to the professional engineer working in the wireless industry; including RF techniques for optical communications. The three-day event incorporated an exhibition.
The first day presented two full-day training courses on the topics of RF Circuit Design and Digital Modulation Formats. The technical programme included 12 wireless sessions and 4 opto sessions, poster sessions and workshops; the workshops focused on such topics as software defined radio, MEMS, wireless networking and RF/optoelectronic packaging. The opening plenary session on the second day included three keynote presentations: "Building blocks for wireless internet" by Esko Jurvanen from Intel Wireless Competence Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; "Wireless access using microwave photonics" by Alwyn Seeds (IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer) from University College, London; and "The past, present and future of wireless RF power" by Ray Pengelly from UltraRF, Sunnyvale, CA, USA. Invited papers of the 3rd-day plenary session included: "The future of the wireless information society in Europe" by Dr Jorge Pereira from The Information Society (European Commission); "Low-IF transceiver architecture for GSM/GPRS applications" by James Kimery from Silicon Laboratories; "Galileo - new opportunities for location-based services in Europe" by Tony Pratt from Parthus Technologies: and "Why many hands will make light work of 3G" by Paul Bruce from Radioscape.
The conference attracted wide international representation and was considered to be highly successful. Over 100 paper submissions were received in response to the call-for-papers, and the programme incorporated some 85 technical papers (including invited papers and workshops) attracting some three hundred delegates. Next year, the Wireless Design Conference 2003 is planned for M.O.C. Munich, Germany. For further information, please contact Ms Nicola Jedrej E-mail: njedrej@cmp-europe.com, or, Mr David Roberts E-mail: droberts@cmp-europe.com. Also see www.wirelessdesignconf.com.
27th May 2002 - A half-day Photonic Seminar on High-speed Optical Modulators was held at the City University. Four leading experts reviewed the technology and major research and developments in this field; they covered both electro-optic and electro-absorption type modulators, encompassing lithium niobate and semiconductors. Presentations included: "Lithium niobate modulators" by Dr Mike Murphy from JDS Uniphase Corporation; "GaAs/AlGaAs modulations technology for microwave-photonic and high bit-rate telecom applications" by Dr Rob G Walker from Bookham Technology (Caswell);"High output power, low operating voltage 40 Gbit/s electroabsorption modulators" by M J Robertson from Corning Research Centre; "Application of normal-incidence electro-absorption quantum well modulators" by Prof. Gareth Parry from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London. Considerable interest was shown by UK industry research groups, and a well attended meeting included representatives from many leading Photonics establishments; e.g. Agilent, Alcatel, Qinetiq, Bookham & Bookhan (Caswell), Nortel, Corning, JDS Uniphase, and ESL Defence, also leading UK Universities and EPSRC. Contact: B.M.A.Rahman@city.ac.uk
1st and 2nd July 2002 - The 3rd IEEE European MIDAS (Mm-wave, microwave and RF, Integrated circuit Design And Simulation) Workshop, organised by the host establishment and the Chapter, was held at TNO-FEL, The Hague, The Netherlands; with the focus on "Active Array Technology - Towards Wideband Integrated Antenna Panels". Following an introduction by the Workshop Chairman Dr Frank E van Vliet, the technical programme of the first day included three 40-minute length papers within a session on "Simulation Needs", and a four 45-minute paper session on "Packaged MMICs"; followed by an evening Reception, a TNO-FEL museum visit, Dinner and a casino visit. The 2nd day technical sessions incorporated four 45-minute papers on "The Future of Module Technology", and a special session on informal presentation and discussion. This was followed by lunch and formal closure of the workshop. For further details, please contact Dr Frank E van Vliet at vavvliet@fel.tno.nl, or Dr Steve Marsh at steve.marsh@ieee.org .
9th September 2002 - The 7th High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloqium (HFPSC2002) planned for The Imperial London Hotel, London, UK will be reported in the next issue of EDS Newsletter; contact Dr Stepan Lucyszyn at s.lucyszyn@ic.ac.uk,
18th and 19th November 2002 - The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Electron Devices for Microwave and Optoelectronic Applications (EDMO'2002), is planned for 18-19 November 2002 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, UK; see www.edmo-symposium.org, or contact enquiries@edmo-symposium.org.
The Chapter Chairman, Ali Rezazadeh, must be congratulated on his appointment to take a Chair in Microwave Engineering at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Manchester. During his move, please contact the Chapter Secretary: Dr Steve Marsh at Bookham Technology (Caswell), Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8EQ, UK. Tel:01327 356 426. Fax: 01327 356 456. E-Mail: stevemarsh@ieee.org, for further information on Chapter news.
-Gady Golan, Editor
On the traces of Lawrence of Arabia
Report on Bianisotropics'2002,
9th International Conference on
Electromagnetics of Complex Media
-by Saod Zouhdi1 and Ari Sihvola2
After Espoo, Finland (February 1993), Gomel, Belarus (October 1993), Perigueux, France (1994), State College, Pennsylvania (1995), on a river cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow (1996), in Glasgow (1997), Braunschweig (1998), and Lisbon (2000), the fabulous city of Marrakesh was the venue for the 9th International Conference on Electromagnetics of Complex Media : Bianisotropics'2002.
The Bianisotropics meeting this time was a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, with co-Directors Saod Zouhdi (Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris - France) and Mohamed Arsalane (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech - Morocco). The four days of the conference comprised 89 presentations, and 75 scientists from 24 countries participated. Bianisotropics'2002 received technical co-sponsorship from IEEE's Electron Devices Society.
The Keynote presentation of the meeting was given by Professor Victor G. Veselago (Moscow), the "inventor" of the materials with simultaneously negative permittivity and permeability. In Bianisotropics 2002, we also heard review lectures and invited lectures, in addition to ordinary contributed presentations.
The closing ceremony of Bianisotropics 2002 was held in the city of Ouarzazate, on the border of Sahara, on the other side of the High Atlas mountains.
Of the contributions presented in the Bianisotropics 2002, two collected works will be edited: a NATO ASI Series book published by Kluwer, and a special issue in the journal Electromagnetics. But even before that, for those very eager to learn about what was presented in the meeting, there are the summaries of the presentations to be found form the conference website : http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/bian02/
-Christian Zardini, Editor
1 LGEP-Supélec, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; sz@ccr.jussieu.fr
2 Electromagnetics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; ari.sihvola@hut.fi