2012 Advanced Research Workshop
Future Trends in Microelectronics: Into the Cross Currents
June 25-29, 2012:  Corsica, France
Accepted Abstracts (as of June 14, 2012)

Dr Gustavo Ardila
Mechanical energy harvesting with piezoelectric nanostructures: Great expectations for autonomous systems

Dr Francis Balestra
Challenges and limits for very low energy computation

Dr Vadim Banine
Extreme UV lithography now. What happens tomorrow?

Dr Thierry Baron
Top-down nanowires versus bottom-up for nanoelectronic applications

Dr David  Borton
Wireless, implantable neuroprostheses: Applying advanced technology to untether the mind

Dr Enrique Calleja
Efficient green emission and phosphor-free white lighting based on nano-LED ordered arrays grown by selective area MBE

Dr Luigi Colombo
Materials for electronic devices beyond CMOS

Dr Sorin Cristoloveanu

A sharp-switching fully-depleted SOI device with high current drive

Dr Nataliya Demarina

InAs nanowires with surface states as a building block for tube-like electrical sensing devices

Dr Mikhail Dorojevets
State of Flux Quantum and Superconductor Processors for Energy-Efficient Computing

Dr Michel Dyakonov
State of the art and prospects for quantum computing

Dr David Eaglesham
Photovoltaics manufacturing: Lessons to learn and unlearn from the semiconductor industry

Dr Newton Frateschi
Active optomechanical resonators

Dr Peter Gammel
Radio frequency semiconductors at the crossroads

Dr Detlev Grützmacher

Nucleation and growth dynamics of thin film topological insulator Bi2Te3 grown on Si (111) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy

Dr Anna Haab
An alternative path for the fabrication of self-assembled group III-nitride nanowires


Dr Pawel Hawrylak
Graphene based integrated electronic, photonic and spintronic circuit

Dr James Hayward
Shorted circuits: Foiling microelectronic counterfeiters with evidentiary DNA

Dr Sebastian Heedt
Electrical spin injection into semiconductor nanowires

Dimitris Ioannou
Physics and design of nanoscale field effect diodes for memory and electrostatic discharge applications

Dr Hiroshi Iwai
The future of Si nanoelectronics

Dr Aharon Kapitulnik
STM studies of the surface state of three-dimensional topological insulators

Dr Michael Kelly
Unmanufacturability

Dr Ki-Bum Kim
The application of solid-state nanopore structures to biomolecule sensing and sequencing


Dr Kinam Kim
Technology innovation, reshaping the microelectronics industry

Dr Wojciech Knap
Field effect transistors for terahertz applications

Dr Nikolay Ledentsov
Millions of optical links in a single supercomputer: What next?

Dr Jeremy Levy
The challenge of oxide nanoelectronics

Dr H.-C. Liu
THz quantum detectors and lasers: Status, problems and future research directions

Dr David Miller
The heat death of information processing and why interconnects matter more than logic

Dr Vladimir Mitin
Engineering of 3D-barriers by charged quantum dots for effective broadband photovoltaic conversion 

Dr Hooman Mohseni
Optical antennas for optoelectronics: Impacts, promises, and limitations

Dr Djafar Mynbaev
Will optical communications meet the challenges of the future demands?


Dr Jean-Pierre Nozieres
When will MRAM take over the world?

Dr Alik Palevski
Luttinger liquid behavior of long GaAs quantum wires

Dr Mark Pinto
Silicon photovoltaics: Accelerating to grid parity


Dr Shawn Qu
Harvesting solar energy – Challenges and prospects


Dr Shriram Ramanathan
Correlated oxides for advanced electronics and energy devices

Dr Noel Rodriguez
Getting rid of the DRAM capacitor

Dr Victor Ryzhii
Graphene terahertz injection lasers: Concepts and feasibility of realization

Dr Enrico Sangiorgi
Three-dimensional numerical simulation of rear point contact solar cells

Dr Jurriaan Schmitz
CMOS post-processing for more-than-Moore

Dr Siegfried Selberherr
Reduction of the switching current in spin transfer torque random access memory

Dr Michael Shur
Physics and applications of deep-UV LEDs

Dr Paul Solomon
How low can we go?

Dr Sameer Sonkusale
Heterogeneous integration of carbon nanotubes, graphene and nanowires on CMOS for sensing applications
Active metamaterials with embedded electronics for millimeter wave and THz applications

Dr Boris Spivak
The Weakly Coupled Pfaffian as a Type I Quantum Hall Liquid

Dr Arsen Subashiev
Direct observation of Lévy flight of holes in bulk InP

Dr Robin Williams
InAs/InP single quantum dot photonic crystal waveguides

Dr Robert Wolkow
Controlled coupling of silicon atomic quantum dots at room temperature: A basis for atomic electronics?

Dr Alexander Zaslavsky
A sharp-switching fully-depleted SOI device with high current drive

Dr Carl-Mikael Zetterling
SiC high-temperature electronics – is this rocket science?

Dr Igor Zutic
Spin lasers and spin communication


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