Visiting Scientists for Year 2007

To foster stronger ties between IME researchers and international scientists in the field of microelectronics technologies, IME actively invites distinguished scientists to the Institute to facilitate interaction and the exchange of research interests. They include:

14 December 2007
Mr Ganapathy Subramanian
COSMIC Circuits, Bangalore
Gave a talk on "Partitioning Trends in IC Industry"

5 December 2007
Prof Andrzej Kos
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Discussion on possible collaborations in the areas of IC design, student exchange and SINGA programmes

30 November 2007
Dr Mahalingam Sakethraman
General Electronics Research Centre
Discussion on thermal management, MEMS fabrication and packaging work and further collaboration in microelectronics area

21 November 2007
Prof Jirí Málek and Prof Miroslav Ludwig
University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Discussion on possible collaborations in the areas of recruitment, student attachment and SINGA programmes

31 October 2007
Prof Suresh Garimella
Purdue University
Discussion on thermal management in microsystem, microfluidics and future collaboration on thermal area

29 October 2007
Prof Wentai Liu
University of California, Santa Cruz
Gave a talk on "Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems: Bridging Engineering, Medicine and Biology"

1 October 2007
Dr Ralph K. Cavin, III
Semiconductor Research Corporation, USA
Gave a talk on "Information Processing Technologies for Extremely Scaled Microsystems"

1 October 2007
Prof Thomas Koch
Center for Optical Technologies and Lehigh University, USA
Gave a talk on "Silicon Photonics: A New Pathway to Photonic Integration"

24 September 2007
Prof Jason Woo
University of California, Los Angeles
Discussion on possible collaborations

13 August 2007
Prof David Weitz
Harvard University
Gave a talk on "Droplet-based microfluidics for high throughput bioassays"

19 July 2007
Dr Mary Turner
Breault Research Organization, UK
Gave a seminar on advanced modeling in ASAP software and discussed the optical inteconnection applications

12 July 2007
Dr Gianguido Rizzotto
STMicroelectronics Srl
Discussion on possible collaborations in BioMEMS

6 July 2007
Prof Liwei Lin
University of California at Berkeley
Gave a talk on “Integration of Nanostructures with Microsystems”

26-27 June 2007
Associate Prof Ng Wai Tung
University of Toronto
Gave a short course on “Integration of Low Power, High-Frequency Digitally Controlled SMPS – Power Management for Portable Applications”

13 June 2007
Dr Wong Chee Wee
Columbia University
Gave a talk on “Silicon Photonic Crystal Physics and Devices”

15 May 2007
Prof James Chen
McMaster University
RF Noise modeling discussion

9 May 2007
Ms Jan Vardaman
President, TechSearch International
Gave talk on "3D TSV technology and embedded wafer level packages"

25 April 2007
Prof Fujio Masuoka
CTO, Unisantis Electronics (Japan) Ltd and Honorary Professor, Tohoku University
Gave talk on "Impact of Surrounding Gate Transistor on Future High Density LSI" and discussed possible collaborations.

3 April 2007
Prof Alan J Craven
SuperSTEM Lab, Darebury, UK
Gave talk on "Advanced Analytical TEM for Semiconductor Materials Analysis"

3 April 2007
Dr. Eric Van Cappellen
FEI Company, Hong Kong
Gave talk on "Design and Performance of the FEI Monochromator"

29 March 2007
Dr Mark Melliar-Smith
CEO, Molecular Imprint
Gave talk on imprint technology

12 March 2007
Mr Yoshiki Maekawaw
Technical Support Center Manager, Kyocera
Gave LTCC seminar and discussion on LTCC for high speed photonic packaging

16 February 2007
Prof Suo Zhigang
Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanics and Materials, Harvard University
Silicon nanowire technology familiarisation

15 February 2007
Dr Beng Ong
Research Fellow, Xerox Research Centre of Canada
Introductory visit

6 February 2007
Mr Dan Croteau
President, Flextronics
Introductory visit

2 February 2007
Mr Shoumain Chen
Vice President, Shanghai IC R&D Center
Discussion on possible collaborations

31 January 2007
Dr. Russell Gwilliam
Founder and Director, Si-Light
Gave talk on "Silicon Defect - Dislocation Engineering for Light Generation".

30 January 2007
Dr Chris Cole, R&D Director, Finisar, USA
Mr David Harrison, VP and GM, Finisar Singapore
Discussion on possible collaborations. Dr Chris Cole gave a talk on 40 Gb and 100 Gb optical modules.

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