EECS 298-12

Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

http://microlab.berkeley.edu/text/298-12.seminar/

Fridays, 1:00 – 2:00 PM in the Hogan Room (521 Cory)

Spring Semester 2011

Date		Speaker	Company	Host
21 January		Dr. Yukinori Sakiyama Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas in Biology and Medicine	University of Tokyo /UCB	D. Graves
28 January		Professor zhiping (James) Zhou Silicon Photonic Devices for On-Chip Microsystems	Pekin University, China & Georgia Institute of Technology	N. Cheung
4 February		Dr. Arun Persaud Field Ionization Processes for Ion Source Development	LBNL	A. Javey
11 February		Professor Todd R. Weatherford Electro-Thermal Modeling of GaN HEMTs	Dept. Of Electrical & Computer Engineering Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA	O. Dubon
18 February		Rosie Hicks Introducing Australia’s Fabrication Facilities or Australian Nation Fabrication Facility - What can it do for me?	Australian National Fabrication Facility	J. Bokor
25 February		Dr. Daniel Francis GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) on Diamond Substrates	CTO Group4 Labs	N. Cheung
4 March		Dr. Dmitri E. Nikonov Srategies of Spin Torque Switching in Magnetic Memories	Intel Corp.	S. Sayeef
11 March		Dr. George Thompson Energy Efficiency as an Innovation Driver: A Sytem Level Perspective (sponsored by the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Sience (E3S))	Technology Strategy & Planning Intel Corp.	E. Yablonovitch
18 March		Professor Eugene Haller Germanium: From Its Discovery To High Speed Transistors	EECS/UCB	A. Javey
26 March		No seminar - Spring Holiday
1 April		Professor Juin J. Liou Outlook & Challenge in Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection of Modern and Future Integrated Circuits	University of Central Florida	T.-J. King Liu
8 April		Dr. Alavaro Padilla Assessment of Voltage Polarity & Resistance Drift Effects on Symmeric & Asymmetic Phase-Change Memory (PCM) Cell Designs	IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose	T.-J. King Liu
15 April		Dr. Delia Milliron Nanocrystal-Based Electrochromic Window Coatings	Molecular Foundry LBNL	J. Bokor
22 April		Dr. Dennis Buss Surprising Effects of Random Dopant Fluctuations on Logic Timing at Low Voltage	Texas Instruments, Inc.	C. Spanos
29 April		Professor Junichi Murota Atomically Controlled Processing for Group IV Semiconductors	Tokyo University, Sandai, Japan	T.-J. King Liu
6 May		Changhwan Shin Advanced MOSFET Designs and Implications for SRAM Scaling	EECS/UCB	T.-J. King Liu
Fall Semester 2011
26 August	Professor Chemning Hu FinFET and the Concept Behind It		EECS/UCB	A. Javey
2 September	Dr. Deepak Sekar Resistive RAM: Technology and Market Opportunities		Monolithic3D San Jose	T.-J. King Liu
9 September	Dr. Wladek Walukiewicz New Concepts and Materials for Solar Energy Conversion		Materials Sciences Divison, LBNL	A. Javey
16 September	Dr. Sowmya Krishnan Characterization of Critical Subsystems for Process Tool Repeatability		Semitrac, Inc. Santa Clara	C. Spanos
23 September	Chuck Dennison Status, Challenges and Opportunity for Phase Change Memory		Ovonyx, Inc.	J. Bokor
30 September	Dr. Parick P. Naulleau Challenges & Opportunities in EUV Lithography		Center for X-ray Optics LBNL	A. Neureuther
7 October	Dr. Linyong (Leo) Pang Intersecting Challenges: Computational Lithography and Computational Inspection - The Latest Progress		Luminescent Technologies, Inc Palo Alto	E. Yablonovitch
14 October	Professor Xiaolin Zheng Transfer Printing Methods for Fabricating Nanowire Devices on Diverse Substrates		Mechanical Engineering Stanford University	A. Javey
21 October	Dr. Behtash Behin-Aein Novel All-Spin Devices and Architectures for Low Power Computing		GLOBALFOUNDRIES Milpitas	S. Salahuddin
28 October	Dr. Victor Moroz Transition from Planar MOSFETs to FinFETs and its Impact on Design and Variability		Synopsys, Inc. Mountain View	T.-J. King Liu
4 November	Professor Debdeep Jena Graphene-Based Tunnel-Transistors for Low-Power Computation: Surprises in Symmetry		Notre-Dame U. Indiana	T.-J. King Liu
11 November No seminar: Veterans Day
18 November	Professor Tian-Ling Ren New Materials Based Devices		Tsinghua University China	J. Bokor
25 November No seminar: Thanksgiving Holiday
2 December	Professor Michel Maharbiz Cyborg Beetles: Building Interfaces between the Synthetic and the Multicellular		EECS/UCB	V. Subramanian