2003 Microtechnology Conference in collaboration with 2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show February 23-27, 2003 Grand Hyatt San Francisco , California, U.S.A. Conference Technical Program

Topics and Application Areas

The major areas of activity in the development of microsystems solicited and expected at this conference include but are not limited to:

A technical digest and CD ROM, consisting of articles submitted by authors of both oral and poster papers will be distributed to participants at registration.

Microsystems Chair

Semiconductor Chair

Microsystems Program Committee

Technical Program Chairs

Microtechnology Highlights

• Albert P. Pisano
  University of California at Berkeley
  The MEMS-Nano Connections: Accessing Nanotechnology through Microtechnology
• Clark T.-C. Nguyen
  DARPA/MTO
  MEMS Technologies for Communications
• Phaedon Avouris
  IBM Research Division
  Title to be Announced
• David Awschalom
  UC Santa Barbara
  Manipulating Quantum Information with Semiconductor Spintronics
• Christian Joachim
  CEMES-CNRS
  Molecular Wires and Logic Circuit Integration in a Single Molecule
• George Robillard
  Founder and Director of BioMade Corporation, Groningen, Netherlands
  NanoTech Devices: Towards Protein Control of Surface Activity and Permeability
• Sandeep Malhotra
  Vice President of Nanotechnology, Ardesta
  Joseph Schumpeter ... Meet Dr. Feynman
• Eiichi Maruyama
  RIKEN Frontier Research System, Japan
  Title to be announced
• Robert Rudd
  Lawrence, Livermore National Laboratory
  Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics for Nano-Design

• Modeling of Micro and Nano Fluidic Systems
  Narayan Aluru, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Steffen Hardt, Institute of Microtechnology, Mainz, Germany
• Fundamentals in MEMS
  Wenjing Ye and John Pelesko, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Smart MEMS and Sensor Systems
  Elena Gaura, Coventry University, UK
  Michael Kraft, Southampton University, UK

The Smart MEMS session aims to focus on the "system aspects" arising in the processes of MEMS simulation, design and modelling. These processes are particularly challenging since for most applications they typically comprise of many domains such as mechanical, electrical, fluidic, thermal, etc. As the applications of MEMS are growing and becoming widespread across every industry sector, their ease of integration, reliability, monitoring, performance evaluation and fault-tolerant properties become key factors in the MEMS design process.

• Converging Technologies at the Nanoscale to Improve Human Performance
  Mihail Roco, National Science Foundation
• The PEM Fuel Cell: Materials and Device Modeling
  Stephen J. Paddison
  Los Alamos National Laboratory

Confirmed speakers:

• On the Development of New Electrolytes for Fuel Cell Applications: the Role of Simulation Tools
  Klaus-Dieter Kreuer, Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Germany
• Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory for Micro-domain Structure in Perfluorinated Ionomers
  Harry J. Ploehn, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
• Title to be Announced
  Matthew Neurock, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia
• Modeling PEFC Anode Performance to Include Effects of CO, Reformate Gas, and Hydrogen Dilution
  Thomas E. Springer, Materials Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Effects of the environment on the performance of PEM nanocatalysts
  Perla B. Balbuena, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
• Title to be Announced
  Keith Promislow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Micro-scale Phenomena in PEM Fuel Cells
  C. -Y. Wang, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
• Title to be Announced
  Hongtan Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Miami
• Voltage current curve of a PEM fuel cell: analytical and numerical modeling
  Andrei A. Kulikovsky, Insitute for Materials and Processes in Energy Systems, Research Center Juelich, Germany
• Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics of CH3OH at the H2O/Pt Interface
  Thomas K. Mattsson, Surface and Interface Science Department, Sandia National Laboratories
• Title to be Announced
  James A. Elliott, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, England
• Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Transport Processes in PEM Fuel Cells
  Bruno D’Aguanno, Energy & Process Engineering Department, CRS4, Italy
• Theoretical Study of Temporal Performance Patterns in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Anodes
  Michael Eikerling, Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, Germany
• Proton Conduction in the Polymer Electrolyte Membrane: molecular and statistical mechanics modeling
  Stephen J. Paddison, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory


• DNA- and Protein-Chip^© design and modeling
  Andreas Hieke, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.
• Molecular Electronics
  Alex Demkov
  Motorola
  M.P. Anantram
  NASA Ames Research Center

With the size of the electronic devices becoming comparable to that of molecular systems, nano and molecular electronics become competing alternatives for future electronics. Theoretical methods used in both fields are rather similar in their mathematical form and in their shortcomings. Experiments are difficult to do and to interpret. The focus session will provide a forum to discuss the future of the electronics research, and is meant to highlight the importance of novel theoretical/computational approaches to electronics in the nano-meter scale. Papers modeling nanostructures using ab initio (quantum chemistry and solid state physics), tight-binding, molecular dynamics and other approaches are welcome. Papers are solicited including (but not limited to) the following areas:

• molecular electronics
• computational nanoelectronics
• silicon, BN and carbon nanotubes
• DNA transport
• full band modeling in quantum transport
• novel nano-scale device structures
• modeling of molecular scale logic gates

Confirmed speakers:

• Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University, USA
• Stefan Heinze, IBM, USA
• George Kirczenow, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Mark Ratner, Northwestern University, USA
• Gioulia Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Francisco Raymo, University of Miami, USA


• Quantum Effects, Quantum Devices, and Spintronics
  David Ferry, Arizona State University

Papers from this special session, along with selected papers from the ICCN will appear in the Journal of Computational Electronics, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• Simulation of photonic crystals and electromagnetic band gap based device
  Andreas Hieke, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.
• Biomimetics: Emulating Biological Principles of Organization and Function at the Nanoscale
  Atul Parikh, UC-Davis
• Lab on a Chip; Fluidics to Proteomics
  Srinivas Iyer, Los Alamos National Lab

Chairman: Prof. Xing Zhou
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
EXZHOU@ntu.edu.sg

Compact Models (CMs) for circuit simulation have been at the heart of CAD tools for circuit design over the past decades, and are playing an ever increasingly important role in the very-deep-submicron/system-on-chip (VDSM/SOC) era.  As the mainstream MOS technology is scaled into the VDSM regime, development of a truly physical and predictive compact model for circuit simulation that covers geometry, bias, temperature, DC, AC, RF, and noise characteristics becomes a major challenge.

• Workshop on Compact Modeling Web Page

• Micro and Nano CAD Tool Panel
  Jacob White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Opportunities in the Integration of Micro, Nano and Bio Technologies, Venture Capital Panel

• Fundamentals and Applications of Micro/Nanofluidics
  Steve Wereley, Purdue University