The remarkable progress in semiconductor technology has enabled an amazing and rapidly expanding array of consumer products. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that in future information processing applications, synergistic innovations in materials and devices based on new physical principles will be a key to achieving new levels of performance. While desirable attributes of devices are high speed, high density, and low-voltage operation, device physics sets fundamental limits and forces trade-offs on the integration of all desirable attributes into one device element. The next generation of technologies will rely on the discoveries made by researchers working in the physical sciences.
The primary goal of the Masterclass is to present a pedagogical introduction to this rapidly growing field that can have a significant impact. The target participants are masters and PhD students in Physics, Materials Science and Electrical engineering, and junior faculty. The speakers at the Masterclass are pioneers in their respective areas of expertise and possess a clear vision about how scientific ideas at the present time can fashion revolutionary technologies of the future.
The academic organization of the program will encourage informal one-on-one interaction with the participants. To this end the one hour thirty minutes long lectures will have a mid-way break to answer questions to discuss implications of the work in a field on other areas and ideas. Additional reading material or resources will be provided on the website to enable assimilation of the material covered during the lectures.
Following is the broad category of topics the Masterclass plans to cover
- Generic Issues of post 10nm scaling
- Emerging Memory Materials and Devices
- Beyond Silicon based logic materials and device technologies
- Computational Materials and Devices
- 3D Nanofabrication
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