| The 2007 International Semiconductor
Device Research Symposium (ISDRS) was held at the Stamp Student Union
of the University of Maryland, College Park, on December 12-14, 2007.
This student-centric technical symposium held in the Washington, DC
area immediately following the IEDM was attended by more than 360 people
representing 25 states and 27 countries. Technical areas included wide-bandgap
materials and devices, optoelectronics, sensors and biosensors, nanoelectronics,
space applications, oxides and dielectrics, and modeling and simulations.
Four parallel sessions included 330 contributed, invited, and plenary
presentations. The plenary session had three excellent presentations
by:
1) Dr. Robert Chau, Intel Corporation, “The Challenges and Opportunities
of Emerging Nanotechnology for Future VLSI Nanoelectronics”,
2) Dr. Mark S. Lundstrom, Purdue University, “The Ultimate MOSFET
and the Limits of Miniaturization” and
3) Dr. Mark Rosker, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
“The Coming Revolution in RF Electronics.”
Dr. Dieter Schroder, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University
of Arizona was presented the van der Zeil Award for his distinguished
career as an educator and researcher. The financial sponsors of the
Symposium are the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National
Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
the Army Research Office, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
of the University of Maryland, and the Nanocenter at the University
of Maryland. The Symposium is under the technical sponsorship of the
IEEE Electron Devices Society and the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society. Selected papers from the symposium will be published in a special
edition of the journal Solid-State Electronics.
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| Photograph of Symposium Chair Dr. Phillip
E. Thompson presenting 2007 van der Ziel Award to Dr. Dieter Schroder,
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona,
for his distinguished career as an educator and researcher |
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