Plenary lectures in ISIF2008, Singapore
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"Advanced FeRAMS--Prospects for Nanostructures"
Carlos Paz de Araujo
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Symetrix Corp., USA
Prof Paz de Araujo has a B.S.E.E., a M.S.E.E., and a Ph.D. from The University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1977, 1979, and 1982 respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 1982. He has focused his research in areas such as device modeling, integration and novel materials for non-volatile memories. His initial research was in high-K materials for GaAs MMICs which received acceptance in the market with over 500 million devices. His involvement with Ferroelectric non-volatile memories led to the discovery of high endurance materials from which non-volatile FeRAMs of over 100 billion erase/write cycles can be made. Over 100 million of such devices have already entered the market using these novel materials based on bismuth compounds. Most of Prof Paz de Araujo’s research in this area has been across national boundaries involving many engineers especially from Matsushita Corporation of Osaka, Japan. Dr. Paz de Araujo is the author or co-author of more than 290 papers and 150 U.S. Patents. He has received a number of awards including the American Electronics Association Outstanding Educator/Researcher of the Year, the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics.
"Electrically Controllable Antiferromagnets for Spintronics"
R. Ramesh
Materials Science/ Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Prof Ramesh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph. D. in 1987. At the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1987-1988 he carried out pioneering research on high temperature superconductors and co-discovered the 110K superconducting phase in the bismuth cuprate system. From 1989-1995, at Bellcore, he initiated research in several key areas, including ferroelectric nonvolatile memories. His landmark contributions in ferroelectrics came through the recognition that conducting oxide electrodes are the solution to the problem of polarization fatigue, which for 30 years, remained an enigma and unsolved problem. This contribution is now recognized worldwide with many industrial and research laboratories implementing such an approach. In 1994, in collaboration with S. Jin (Lucent Technologies), he initiated research into manganite thin films and they coined the term, Colossal Magnetoresistive (CMR) Oxides. He is currently a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he continues to pursue key scientific and technological problems in complex multifunctional oxide thin films, nanostructures and heterostructures. He has over 400 publications, 18 patents issued and 11 pending and his research is extensively cited (over 16000 citations putting him among the HighlyCited researchers in Physics). Among his honors, are a Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize, Fellowship to the American Physical Society (2001), the 2005 Adler Lectureship of the American Physical Society and the 2007 MRS Turnbull Lectureship.
"Piezoelectric Thin Films and Their Applications for Electronics"
Yukio Yoshino
Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Japan
Dr. Yukio Yoshino received a BS in physics from Osaka University in 1976, a MS in material physics from Osaka University in 1978, and a Ph D in engineering from Kanazawa University in 2001. He joined Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd in 1978 and worked on production of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices for TV etc. After that he belongs to R&D division in Murata and study mainly thin films and their applications including MEMS devices. Specific area of interest includes relationship between growth mechanism and electric properties, SAW/BAW (bulk acoustic wave) devices, MEMS (micro electromechanical systems) applications, etc. Now he is a general manager of intellectual property department in Murata. He is a member of MRS in USA, Japan society of applied physics and a director of Kyoto invention society.