2009 Technical Program
TUTORIALS SESSION
Chair: Fred Walker, Yale University
Speaker 1: Daniel Worledge, IBM
“Magnetic Memory Applications”
Speaker 2: M. L. Lee from Yale, Topic:
“Solar Cell Materials”
Speaker 3: Prof. Robert Wallace, University of Texas
“Challenges for High-K Dielectrics on High Mobility Channels”
Speaker 4: Dr. Ted Moise, Texas Instruments
"Ferroelectrics and Ferroelectric Devices"
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Arunava Majumdar, UC Berkeley
Topic: “Materials in Energy”
Materials in Energy
Arun Majumdar
Departments of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Materials Sciences Division
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
To address the challenges of energy security and climate change, it is becoming increasingly clear that “business as usual” traditional approaches to decarbonize the energy supply and to reduce energy demand are inadequate. We need to create an era of major innovations in energy conversion, storage and end-use technology that are not only efficient, but are also scalable and cost-effective. This, in combination with well-aligned policy, education and economics, can lead to profound societal changes. Such major innovations are likely to happen through the fundamental understanding and utilization of science. In this talk, I will discuss a few examples of how materials could play a critical role in creating a new industrial revolution in a carbon-constrained economy. These will span energy conversion from heat to work, energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, conversion of solar energy to electricity and fuels, etc.
Professor Arun Majumdar received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) in 1985, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. After being on the faculty of Arizona State University (1989-92) and University of California, Santa Barbara (1992-96), he began his faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently holds the Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professorship in the College of Engineering. In addition to his faculty appointment, he is the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Majumdar served as the Chair of the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute and was also a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He served as the Council of Materials Science and Engineering at the Department of Energy and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Directorate. Professor Majumdar is a fellow of ASME and AAAS, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Plenary Speakers
Plenary 1: C. Araujo, Symetrix Corporation and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Title: “The Role of Non-Volatile Memory in Ubiquitous Computing”
Plenary 2: To be announced
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Invited talks 30 minutes; oral presentations 15 minutes
Session 1: Non-Volatile Memories (FeRAMs, RRAMs, MRAMs, PCMs)
Chairs:
T. Moise, Texas Instrument, Dallas, TX, USA
C. Muller, Polytechnique Universitaire de Marseille, France
Invited Speakers:
J. P. Nozieres, Crocus Technology, France and USA
D. Ielmini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
J. Eliason, Ramtron, USA
Session 2: Inorganic Materials for Biomedical Devices and Biosensors
(Canceled)
Session 3: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics: Theory, Experiments, and Devices
Chairs:
N.D. Mathur, University of Cambridge, UK
R. Katiyar, University of Puerto Rico
Invited Speakers:
V. Garcia, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, France
A. Kumar, University of Puerto Rico
Session 4: Nanoscale Ferroelectrics and Interfaces: Size Effects
Chairs:
S. Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
M. Alexe, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Invited Speakers:
A. Baddorf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
W. Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Korea
Session 5: Synthesis and Characterization of Ferroelectric Materials: Theory and Experiment
Chairs:
S. Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
M. Dawber, Stony Brook University, USA
Invited Speakers:
X. Hong, Penn State, USA
B. Huey, University of Connecticut, USA
Session 6: Synthesis and Characterization of High-K Dielectrics for Nanoscale CMOS Devices
Chairs:
P. Majhi, Sematech, USA
J.Y. Kim, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Invited Speakers:
J. Lee, University of Texas, USA
Session 7: Piezoelectrics and Opto-Electronics and Photovoltaics for Sensors, Actuators, and Energy Conversion
Chairs:
H. Funakubo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Invited Speakers:
T. Kobayashi, AIST, Japan
Session 8: Synthesis and Characterization of High-K Dielectrics for RF Applications, and Devices
Chairs:
F. A. Miranda, NASA, USA
G. Subramanyam, University of Dayton, OH, USA
Invited Speakers:
J. Baniecki, Fujitsu, Japan
M. Cole, Army Research Lab, USA
G. Velu, University Littoral, France
Session 9: Ferroelectric Polymers, Composites and Liquid Crystals
Chairs:
D. Chu, Cambridge Research Laboratory of Epson, UK
S. Ducharme, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:
Q.M. Zhang, Penn State
Igor Stolichnov, EPFL Lausanne
Alain Jonas, Catholic University of Belgium in Louvain
Session 10: Transport Properties in Nanoscale Resistive Memories
Chair:
C. Araujo, Symetrix Corp. and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA