2006 Advanced Research Workshop (FTM-5)
Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek
June 26-30, 2006:  Crete, Greece

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Program and Agenda

Sunday
June 25
Registration        How you can be contacted during the Workshop?
Day 1
Monday
June 26

8:30  Welcoming remarks by FTM Mafia
(Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alex Zaslavsky)

Morning Session: Captains of Industry and Solomon the Wise
      Chairs: Marie D'Iorio and Donald Silversmith
8:45 Mark Pinto Nanomanufacturing technology: Exa-units at nano-dollars
9:25 Jos Benschop 32 nm: Lithography at a crossroad
10:05
Michel Brillouët Physical limits of Si CMOS: Real showstopper or wrong problem?
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:00 Boaz Eitan NVM future trends – from floating gate to trapping devices
11:40
Paul Solomon Carbon-nanotube solutions for the post-CMOS-scaling world
12:20 Henk van Houten Towards nanomedicine
13:00 - Lunch

Evening Panel, 18:00-20:00
Topic: Prospecting Up the Nano Creek
Moderator: Michael Shur
Panelists: Michael Kelly, Edmund Linfield, David Miller,Yoshio Nishi, Arto Nurmikko

Day 2
Tuesday
June 27

Morning Session: Bio-El: the Infectious Adventure
     Chairs: Michael Milligan and Nadia Lifshitz
8:30 Peter Gammel
Androids in our future: Toward networked, intelligent bioelectronics
9:10 Arto Nurmikko
Reading/Writing Your Brain: Not Just Another Micro/Optoelectronic Interconnect Challenge
9:50 Cees Dekker
Nanoscience from carbon nanotubes to single-molecule biophysics
10:30 - Break
10:45 Eckard Wimmer
Synthetic biology: Synthesis and modification of a chemical called poliovirus
11:25
Robert Austin
Directed Evolution on a Nanofabricated Chip: Electronic Hydrogen Gas  Detection
12:05 Nadrian Seeman Using structural DNA nanotechnology to organize matter
13:00 - Lunch

Evening Session:    Poster Presentations and Discussion
      Chair: Yacov Shamash
     
18:00-20:00
Gregory Belenky Widely tunable type-II interband cascade laser
Dan Botez
Intersubband Quantum-Box Lasers: An Update
Sorin Cristoloveanu Concluding a noisy debate
Mikhail Dorojevets Superconductor RSFQ microprocessors and systems: Status, challenges, and projections
Michel Dyakonov
Absolute negative resistance in ballistic field effect transistor
Newton Frateschi Silicon microdisk structures with rare-earth doped amorphous silicon
Detlev Grützmacher Three-dimensional Ge quantum dot crystals prepared by templated self-organization
Qing Hu
Terahertz quantum cascade lasers and real-time T-rays imaging
Hiroshi Iwai Future of nano CMOS and its manufacturing
Dimitris Ioannou Negative bias temperature instability in SOI p–MOSFETs

Yong Jin
One-dimensional quantum ballistic field effect transistor
Vladimir Mitin
THz and far-IR sensors: Looking for optimal nanodesign
Junichi Murota
Atomically Controlled Processing for Future Si-Based Devices
Yoshio Nishi
Scaling limits of Si-CMOS and non-Si opportunities

Alik Palevski Luttinger liquid behavior in weakly disordered quantum wires
Enrico Sangiorgi Quasi-ballistic transport in nano-MOSFETs
Michael Shur Absolute negative resistance in ballistic field effect transistor
Michael Shur Oscillatory frequency dependence of ballistic mobility
Michael Shur Mysteries of persistent noise in single-wall carbon nanotubes
Margarita Tsaousidou Quantum control of the dynamics of a semiconductor quantum well
Alex Zaslavsky Flexible metallic interconnects for displays and large-area electronics
Nikolai Zhitenev
Nano- and mesoscale molecular junctions: Control of defects, chemical bonds and surface topography at metal-molecule interface
Peter Zory
Intersubband Quantum-Box Lasers: An Update

Day 3
Wednesday
June 28

 

Morning Session: "It's all done with mirrors"
      Chairs: Vladimir Mitin and Dan Botez
8:30
Claude Weisbuch Improvements in light emitters by controlling spontaneous emission: From LEDs to biochips
9:10 Edmund Linfield Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging
9:50 Federico Capasso
Nanophotonics: Searching for new phenomena and devices
10:30 - Break
10:45 Boris Spivak Does a theory of the laser linewidth exist?
11:25 David Miller
Silicon photonics – optics to the chip at last?
12:15 - Departure for boat excursion and lunch
Evening Session (begins at 7 pm)
      Chair: Jimmy Xu
19:00 -20:00      Plenary Presentation:  Harold Kroto, "Architecture in Nanospace"
Day 4
Thursday
June 29
Morning Session: Spins, Fluxes and other Spooky quanta
     Chairs: Dan Purdy and Sorin Cristoloveanu
8:30
Emmanuel Rashba Semiconductor spintronics: Progress and challenges
9:10
Igor Zutic Semiconductor spintronics: From spin injection to spin-controlled logic
9:50
Stuart Parkin Spintronic devices for nonvolatile memory and logic
10:30 - Cofee Break
10:45
Alexei Efros Optical properties of materials with negative refraction: perfect lenses and cloaking
11:25
Pawel Hawrylak Quantum information - future of microelectronics
12:05
Michel Dyakonov Is fault-tolerant quantum computation really possible?
13:00 - Lunch
Evening Panel: Fashions, fads, fades, fates, and faith 
      Moderators:   Serge Luryi and Jimmy Xu
18:00 Serge Luryi + all participants
Historical votes and bets on fashionable trends
19:00
Jimmy Xu + all participants
Vote on best poster
19:15
Anna Zdanovich (general lecture, all spouses
and guests are cordially invited)
Mystical Symbolic Language of Byzantine Icons 
20:30 Conference banquet
Day 5
Friday
June 30
Morning Session: Hot off the press
     Chairs: Hiroshi Iwai and  James DeCorpo
8:30
Upendra Singh The future of single- to multi-band detector technologies
9:05
Olof Engstrom Will the insulated gate transistor concept survive next decade?
9:40
Michael Kelly Alternatives to silicon: Will our best be anywhere good enough in time?
10:15
Francois Arnaud d'Avitaya MRAM scaling-down challenges
10:50 – 11:00  Coffee Break
11:00
Martin Green A new class of semiconductors using quantum confinement of silicon in a dielectric matrix
11:35
Mihai Banu Ultimate VLSI clocking using passive serial distribution
12:10
Nikolai Ledentsov Merging nanoepitaxy and nanophotonics
12:45
Best Poster To be announced
13:20
Serge Luryi and Jimmy Xu Closing remarks

At this point the conference is closing, BUT... 
... lunch and dinner will still be served -- and breakfast the morning after !

See you soon!

 
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