2015 Advanced Research Workshop
Future Trends in Microelectronics: Journey into the Unknown
June 21-26, 2015:  Mallorca, Spain

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Program and Agenda

Sunday
June 21
Registration        How you can be contacted during the Workshop?
Day 1
Monday
June 22

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

Morning Session: Captains of Industry Set the Tone
      Chairs: Mark Pinto and Jimmy Xu
9:00 Omkaram Nalamasu "Precision materials engineering: Atomic control of materials for addressing electronics, energy and display industry challenges"
9:40 Jos Benschop "How lithography enables Moore's Law"
10:20
Carlos Mazure "A materials view of the "Internet of Things" opportunity"
11:00-11:15   Coffee Break
11:15 Henk Van Houten
"Image-guided intervention and therapy"
11:55
Peter Gammel "Mobile RF front-end integration"
12:35-13:15
Kinam Kim "Implications of the "Internet of Things" to silicon scaling and the microelectronics industry"

Evening Panel, 18:00-20:00
Moderators: Jimmy Xu  and Mark Pinto                Industry Captains' Roundtable

Day 2
Tuesday
June 23

Morning Session
Chairs: François Arnaud d'Avitaya and Ki-Bum Kim 
9:00 Suman Datta "Computing with coupled relaxation oscillators"
9:40
Sungwoo Hwang "Graphene and atom-thick 2D materials: Device application prospects"
10:20
Jean-Pierre Nozieres "Can MRAM (finally) be a factor?"
11:00-11:15   Coffee Break
11:15 Mikael Östling    "1D devices for Ge and 2D materials utilizing 3D integration technology"
11:55 Paul Solomon "What happened to post-CMOS?"
12:35-13:15
Enrico Sangiorgi "Micro- and nano-power systems for energy harvesting"

Evening Session:    Poster Presentations and Discussion
      Chair: Yacov Shamash
     
18:00-20:00
Poster Format
1×1 meter or 1×1.2 meters, to be attached to a poster board or directly to a room wall with thumbtacks
Gustavo Ardila "Will composite nano-materials replace piezoelectric thin films for energy transduction?"
Francis Balestra "Challenges to ultra-low-power operation"
Gregory Belenky "Novel type-I quantum well interband cascade lasers"
Dan Botez "Phase-locked QCL arrays: Photonic crystals for watt-range, coherent mid-IR power generation"
Sorin Cristoloveanu "A lesson from archeology: The buried gates"
Nataliya Demarina "Conductivity oscillations of GaAs-InAs nanowires in parallel magnetic field"
Newton Frateschi "Tunable photonic molecules for spectral engineering in dense photonic integration"
Hiroshi Iwai "Future of logic device technology in the short and long term"
Ki-Bum Kim "Recent progress in solid-state nanopore-based biomolecule sensing"
Yong-Tae Kim
"GaN power devices for a new wave of electric vehicles and microwave applications"
Nikolay Ledentsov, Jr. "Far- and near-field study of leaky emission in oxide-confined vertical cavity lasers"
Jung-Hee Lee "First demonstration of GaN nanowire-based devices with top-down approach"
Vladimir Mitin "Reconfigurable nanomaterials for adaptive sensing: Electric and optical control of nanoscale potential profile"
Djafar Mynbaev "Beyond optical communications: What next?"
Alik Palevski "Sequential tunneling in InAs nanowires"
Noel Rodriguez "Scribing graphene circuits"
Victor Ryzhii "Graphene-based terahertz and infrared photodetectors: Can they surpass all others?"
Yerulan Sagidolda "Selective gas sensor using porous silicon and silicon nanowires"
Siegfried Selberherr "A universal nonvolatile processing environment"
Issai Shlimak "Structure and electron transport in monolayer graphene gradually disordered by ion irradiation"

Michael Shur
(1) "Single and multilayer graphene and MoS2 thin-film transistors: 1/f noise and gas sensing"
(2) "Ultimate response speed of plasmonic THz detectors"
(3) "New ideas in smart lighting" Best Poster Award
Daniela Stange "High-Sn content GeSn Light Emitters for Silicon Photonics"
Viktor Sverdlov "Strained silicon-on-insulator for spintronic applications: Giant spin lifetime enhancement"
Alexander Zaslavsky "High-performance amorphous indium-zinc-oxide thin film transistors"
Carl-Mikael Zetterling "Working on Venus: How to build the electronics for a Venus lander"


Day 3
Wednesday
June 24

 

Morning Session
      Chairs: Michael Shur and Marco Mastrapasqua
9:00
Mihai Banu "How to increase the capacity of mobile wireless networks without changing anything (well, almost anything)!"
9:40
David Borton
"Rewiring the nervous system, without wires"
10:20
James Hayward "DNA tags to secure microelectronics: Counterfeiting, supply-chain security and the cyber threat"
11:00-11:15   Coffee Break
11:15-11:55 Serge Luryi "Reflections on field-induced insulator to metal transition in VO2 films"

13:00 Optional boat trip and cave visit excursion (must register)
Day 4
Thursday
June 25
Morning Session
     Chairs:  Yong-Tae Kim and Nadia Lifshitz
9:00
Jurriaan Schmitz "Self-healing in semiconductors"
9:40
Carl-Mikael Zetterling "Ultimate limits in high-temperature operation of semiconductors (not just SiC)"
10:20
Detlev Grützmacher "Lasing from a direct bandgap GeSn alloy grown on Si (10) substrates"
11:00-11:15   Coffee Break
11:15
Eli Yablonovitch "Can optoelectronics provide the motive power for future vehicles?"
11:55
David Miller "Sorting out light-space, the final frontier"
12:35-13:15
Yeshaiahu Fainman "Will nanophotonics "save" microelectronics?"

Evening Panel 
      Moderator: Enrique Calleja
18:00-18:45
 (special lecture)     Mark Pinto "Silicon Photovoltaics: Global Retail Parity & Beyond"
19:00-20:00 Serge Luryi + all participants
Historical votes and bets on fashionable trends: "Fashions, fads, fades, fates, and faith"
20:00
Yacov Shamash + all participants
Vote on best poster
20:30 Conference banquet
Day 5
Friday
June 26
Morning Session
     Chairs: Sorin Cristoloveanu  and Hiroshi Iwai
9:00
Hooman Mohseni "Thermodynamic limit of photon detection sensitivity: Can we achieve it; can we change it?"
9:40
Edward Yi Chang "InGaAs-based devices for future terahertz and post-CMOS applications"
10:20
Michel Dyakonov "Surface waves everywhere
11:00-11:15  Coffee Break
11:15
Lorenzo Faraone
"Can optical MEMS provide low-cost solutions for field-portable spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging?"
11:55
Nikolay Ledentsov "Addressing the bandwidth density bottleneck: High-speed modulation, wavelength, and mode control in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers"
12:35
Michael Kelly "Aspects of nano-manufacturing"
13:15-13:30

Closing remarks

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