2nd International Electronic Conference - Enabling Nanoelectronics
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Welcome to the 2nd International Electronic Conference—Enabling Nanoelectronics
Dear scientists, researchers, and authors,
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd International Electronic Conference—Enabling Nanoelectronics, chaired by Prof. Yeo Kiat Seng, will be held at https://sciforum.net/conference/IEC2021 from 1 to 31 October 2021.
The silicon Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) was incorporated into integrated circuits in the early 1970s, and progress since then has followed an exponential behaviour that has come to be known as Moore's Law.
Trends: Over the past 50 years, intensive research on the scaling down of MOSFETs has improved both the operating speed and integration density of silicon logic large scale integrated circuits. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) predicts that the scaling down will continue, and the gate length in microprocessor units (MPUs) will reach atomic-level dimensions soon. In fact, several research groups have already reported on the development of 3-nm-level MOSFETs. It is, therefore, quite likely that the scaling down to atomic length is achievable in the future.
Advanced Nanotechnologies: This rapid scaling has brought silicon technology to the point where various fundamental physical phenomena are beginning to impede the path to further progress. These effects include tunnelling through the gate insulator, tunnelling through the bandgap, quantum confinement issues, interface scattering, discrete atomistic effects in the doping and at interfaces, and thermal problems associated with very high-power densities. Because of these difficulties, many new and interesting changes to the basic MOSFET technology are being explored, including new gate geometries and multiple gates, the use of strain to increase mobility, and the use of extremely thin, fully depleted silicon layers for the FET channel.
The Problems: Unfortunately, even for these new devices, power dissipation and the temperature rise associated with very high-power densities remain problems. This makes it more and more apparent that each technology design point must be optimized for maximum performance subject to application-dependent power constraints. Due to the nature of some applications, the power dissipation problem is even graver and requires immediate attention. These applications include, but are not limited to power electronics in electric vehicles, radio frequency/mm-wave in 5G/6G wireless, low-power integrated design in internet of things and energy harvesting as well as high-performance chips in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning and big data.
We hope that you will be able to participate in this exciting event, which is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher (https://www.mdpi.com/).
Paper Submission Guidelines:
For information about the submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section "Instructions for Authors" .
We look forward to receiving your research papers and welcoming you to the 1st edition of this e-conference.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Prof. Yeo Kiat Seng
Department of Research and International Relations at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) , Singapore
Yeo Kiat Seng received his B.Eng. (EE) in 1993, and Ph.D. (EE) in 1996 both from Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU). Currently, he is Associate Provost for Research and International Relations at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He has about 30 years of experience in industry, academia and consultancy. Before joining SUTD, he was Associate Chair (Research), Head of Circuits and Systems and Sub-Dean (Students Affairs) at NTU.
Meet the Event Chair
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineAug 31, 2021
- Abstract acceptance notificationSep 07, 2021
- Full file submission deadlineSep 15, 2021
- A. Material, Process, Device and Technology
- B. Integrated Circuits
- C. Integrated Systems
- D. Design Automation and Verification
Warmest congratulations on the success of the 2nd International Electronic Conference—Enabling Nanoelectronics. Many thanks for your participation.
All participants of IEC 2021 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Electronics Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference—Enabling Nanoelectronics".
Chaired by Prof. Dr. Paul Leroux
Date and Time: 22 October 2021, 5:00pm (CEST - Central Europe)
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Paul Leroux（Advanced Integrated Sensing Lab (ADVISE), Belgium） Prof. Paul Leroux received the M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the KU Leuven (University of Leuven) His current research activities within the ADVISE research group focus on radiation hardened analog, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuit design for instrumentation and communication applications in nuclear fusion, space and high-energy physics. |
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Giulio Borghello (CERN-EP Department, Switzerland) Giulio Borghello is a member of the CERN Microelectronics Section since 2016. His work involves assessing the behavior of CMOS technologies exposed to the very high levels of TID found in CERN particle detectors. He has authored and co-authored 17 journal and conference papers on the topic of radiation effects in modern CMOS technologies. |
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Alessandro Paccagnella（Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy） Graduated with honors in Physics in 1983 at the University of Padua, university researcher in Trento (1986). He studies the reliability of microelectronic circuits in critical applications such as satellites, airplanes, cars, and high-energy physics experiments at CERN, with particular attention to the effects of ionizing radiation. |
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Umer Farooq (Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, Japan) Umer Farooq was born in Sialkot, Pakistan in 1996. He received BSc (EE) degree from University of Gujrat, Pakistan, in 2017 and got MS (EE) degree from University of Toyama, Japan, in 2021. Currently, he is pursuing PhD in electronics from University of Toyama, Japan. He is doing research on Resonant tunneling diode (RTD) based high frequency oscillators including Chaos generator circuits. |
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Hugh Barnaby（School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, USA） Hugh Barnaby joined the Arizona State University faculty in 2001. Professor Barnaby's research interests include semiconductors for hostile environments, device physics and modeling, microelectronic device and sensor design and manufacturing, and analog/RF/mixed signal circuit design. |
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Frédéric Wrobel（Team RADIAC in the University of Montpellier 2, France） After a university degree in nuclear physics and instrumentation, Frédéric Wrobel performs his doctoral thesis at the University Montpellier 2, under the direction of Professor Jean-Marie Palau, on the issue of the reliability of SRAM’s memories. In his thesis, he joined for several months the team of Theoretical Physics of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States) where he initiated the development of codes of nuclear physics by Monte Carlo calculations adapted to the problem of microelectronics. |
Program:
17:00-17:05 chair: opening talk
17:05-17:40 Giulio Borghello (CERN): Ultra-high-TID effects on nanoscale CMOS technologies
17:40-18:15 Alessandro Paccagnella (Univ. Padova): Radiation detection with flash memories
18:15 -18:20 Umer Farooq ( Univ. Toyama) : A microwave chaos generator circuit employing a resonant tunneling diode
18:20-18:50 Hugh Barnaby (Arizona State Univ.): Latest developments in radiation hardened linear bipolar circuits
18:50-19:25 Frederic Wrobel (Univ. Montpellier) : Use of Monte Carlo method to simulate Single Event Effects
19:25-19:30 Chair: closing
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Live Session - Radiation Effects in Electronics
Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference—Enabling Nanoelectronics"
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microelectronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.