For over a decade now nanoscale
science and technology related subjects have represented an exponentially
growing portion of nearly all scientific and engineering disciplines. Indeed,
the possibility of leveraging fundamental mechanisms at the nanoscale and
molecular levels through a progressively increasing capability to understand,
prescribe and control all the basic properties (structural, chemical,
mechanical, electronic and photonic) of ultra small systems seems to offer
fantastic and unlimited new possibilities for the future.
The emergence of, and progress in, microelectronics has revolutionized the telecommunications & information science and engineering in the 20-the century. It would be difficult to identify or even conceive of any other contemporary technologies that have had a more dramatic, pervasive, and beneficial influence on our everyday living. The extent and sophistication of the spectacular scientific and technological advances that are at our fingertips today as a result of the successes in microelectronics is amazing. It is natural that everyone, not specialists only, wonders which new applications of microelectronics and nano-electronics are most likely to come into life in the near future and what difference these applications might make for the 21-st century.
One of the strongest and most identifiable links of nano-technology to our
modern society is through its recent impact on semiconductor-based consumer
electronics i.e., the continued down-scaling of silicon-based computing &
communication components and systems. While these advances are extremely
important in their own right, the longer-term view of nanoelectronics is much
more grandiose i.e., the expectation is for completely new types of devices and
architectures with revolutionary capabilities. Both the continued down-scaling
of conventional semiconductor electronics and the next-generation electronics
(i.e., that some might call molecular-based electronics), rely heavily on a
broad array of science and technology of nano investigations that span such
areas as: biology, chemistry, physics, material science, along with engineering
sciences such as electronics and mechanics, and even the computer sciences. By
their very nature, all these multidisciplinary efforts must concern themselves
with molecular-level processes, and therefore must incorporate methodologies for
interfacing to the microscopic phenomenon.
The conference will focus on the state-of-the-art of research and development in micro- and nano-scale phenomena, devices, systems and manufacturing. This conference will consist of plenary talks, invited talks, panel discussion, contributed oral and poster presentations and exhibitions and will provide opportunities for communication and collaboration between industry and academia.