2009 Advanced Research Workshop (FTM-6)
Future Trends in Microelectronics: Unmapped Roads
June 14-19, 2009:  Sardinia, Italy
Accepted Abstracts (as of June 7, 2009)

Dr Parhat Ahmed
On the thermal stability of nickel silicides

Dr Muhammad A. Alam
The future of microelectronics is … macroelectronics

Dr Thierry Baron
Emerging nanotechnology for integration of nanostructures in nanoelectronic devices

Dr Francis Balestra
Silicon-based devices and materials for nanoscale CMOS and beyond-CMOS

Dr Mattias Beck
Broadband quantum cascade laser

Dr Gregory L. Belenky
GaSb-based laser diodes operating within the spectral range of 2-3.5 m

Dr Claudio Berti
Simulation of conductance of voltage-gated ion channels and solid-state nanopores

Dr Dan Botez
Intersubband quantum-box lasers:  Progress and potential as uncooled mid-infrared sources

Dr Federico Capasso
Nanophotonics: From light manipulation to quantum levitation at the nanoscale

Dr Alan E. Craig
Picoplasma optoelectronics

Dr Sorin Cristoloveanu
Germanium-on-insulator as a platform for end-of-roadmap devices

Dr Simon Deleonibus
Nanoelectronics era fabrication for a low-cost, portable, high-performance, low-energy-consuming and multifunctional electronics

Dr Nataliya Demarina
Scrolled Si/SiGe heterostructure as a building block for a tube-like field-effect transistor

Dr Marie D'Iorio
An integration challenge: Information and communication technologies to address indoor air quality in commercial buildings

Dr Mikhail Dorojevets
Current status and recent developments in superconductor RSFQ processor and system design

Dr Michel I. Dyakonov
Spin Hall effect

Dr Yeshaiahu Fainman
Nanophotonics for information systems

Dr Jérôme Faist
Quantum cascade lasers at subterahertz frequencies

Dr Newton Frateschi
Si3N4/SiO2 planar photonic structures fabricated by focused ion beam

Dr Ulf Gennser
Quantum cascade structures and electrical injection into polaritons

Dr Claire F. Gmachl
High-performance ultra-strong coupling quantum cascade lasers

Dr Michael Gurvitch
Treating the case of incurable hysteresis in VO2

Dr Detlev Grützmacher
Catalyst-free growth and transport properties of III-V nanowires

Dr Zhong He
Three-dimensional wide bandgap semiconductor radiation detectors and their applications

Dr Qing Hu
Terahertz quantum cascade lasers and video-rate THz imaging

Dr Diana Huffaker
Dissimilar materials integration – enabling innovation

Dr Dimitris E. Ioannou
Silicon nanowire-based nonvolatile memory cells: Progress and prospects

Dr Hiroshi Iwai
Nano-CMOS technology after reaching its scaling limit

Dr Sajeev John
Photonic bandgap materials: On-chip optical information processing with trapped light

Dr Steven Kushner
Can biology provide creative solutions for next-generation memory devices?

Dr Raymond Laflamme
Overview of quantum information processing

Dr Nikolay Ledentsov
Ultrafast nanophotonic devices for optical interconnects

Dr Jang-Sik Lee
Prospects and Challenges of Next Generation Memory Devices

Dr Michael E. Levinshtein
The 1/f noise: Burial is abolished (or postponed)

Dr C. Y. Lu
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory: Trends and vision into nanoelectronics and tera-density era

Dr Serge Luryi
Semiconductor scintillator for three-dimensional array of radiation detectors

Dr David A. B. Miller
Reducing power in information processing – ultra-low energy optoelectronics?

Dr Vladimir Mitin
Quantum-dot photodetectors: In search of optimal design for room-temperature operation

Dr Djafar K. Mynbaev
What modern photonics will contribute to the development of the future optical communications technology?

Dr Hideo Ohno
Magnetic tunnel junction for next generation integrated circuits

Dr Alexander Palevski
Spin screening of  magnetization due to inverse proximity effect in S/F bilayers

Dr Francisco Perez-Martinez
Towards scalable quantum dots

Dr Mark R. Pinto
Large scale photovoltaics

Dr Shriram Ramanathan
1. Embeddable lithographically fabricated micro-fuel cells on silicon platforms for portable power;
2. Oxide devices utilizing metal-insulator transitions

Dr Mark Reed
Label-free sensing with silicon nanowires

Dr Victor Ryzhii
Graphene-Based Infrared and Terahertz Devices: Concepts and Characteristics

Dr Enrico Sangiorgi
Simulation of self-heating effects in different SOI MOS architectures

Dr Siegfried Selberherr
Silicon for spintronic applications: Strain-enhanced valley splitting

Dr Upendra N. Singh
NASA's future earth science missions for global observations and societal benefit: Vision and technological challenges

Dr Michael Shur
Subwavelength imaging of field-effect transistors by focused terahertz radiation
Solid-state lighting
Terahertz sensing technology

Dr Paul M. Solomon
Device proposals beyond silicon CMOS

Dr Sameer Sonkusale
Heterogeneous integration of nanowires and nanotubes on CMOS

Dr Sri Sridhar
Controlling light with nano-optics
Nanomedicine: A new paradigm in diagnosis and therapy

Dr Arsen Subashiev
Semiconductor gamma detectors: Band structure effects in energy resolution

Dr Michael L. W. Thewalt
Highly enriched 28Si – the perfect semiconductor

Dr Alessandro Tredicucci
Towards intersubband polaritonics: how fast can light and electrons mate?

Dr Konstantin D. Tsendin
Chalcogenide glassy semiconductors – could they replace silicon in memory devices?

Dr Claude Weisbuch
The physics of photonic crystal-based LEDs

Dr Robin L. Williams
Directed self-assembly – A controllable route to optical and electronic devices based on single nanostructures


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