January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Shawn Dubravac from two opinions projected the trends for the coming year in consumer devices. 2010 saw the industry move beyond HD TV, new screens, connected and corralling content, customization and personalization, and empowering the individual. 2011 was the year for moving from portable to pocketable, embedded intelligence, sensorization of [...]
January 8, 2012, Storage Visions, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the issues associated with managing and protecting stored content. Michael Willett from Samsung moderated the panel. Presenters included Ben Thiel from Micron, David Duncan from imation, Aidan Herbert from Wave Systems, and Jorge Campello from Hitachi. Additional panelists included Chris Bross from Drivesavers and Tom [...]
November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hakaru Mizoguchi from Gigaphoton talked about efforts to produce a manufacturing-grade EUV source. This photon source will be needed for the next-generation processes below 20 nm. Some of the shortcomings for EUV sources are low power and short lifetimes. To date, the industry has promised production-quality sources [...]
November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D integration in CMOS will help to address the power issues. Leti is a research organization in Grenoble, France that is working on some of the main challenges facing industry and [...]
November 19, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – The Korean Scientist & Engineers Association of Silicon Valley (www.ksea-siv.org) hosted the North West Regional Conference in Santa Clara this year. The event was attended by over 100 members, guests and speakers from the bay area, Southern CA, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland and other chapters in the NW [...]
November 4, 2011 – Berkeley, CA – The E3S center at UC Berkeley, continued its research overview on energy efficient electronis. The second day of the conference focused on new device physics and circuits based on phenomenon other than electron movement along with new ideas for logic design. The day opened with a presentation from [...]
The 2nd Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems was held November 3-4, 2011 to promote international collaboration in the growing research field of energy efficiency in Devices and Circuits. The Symposium was at the University of California, Berkeley, Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium and featured 20 research leaders from Europe, Japan, and the US [...]
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Eric Wesoff from Greentech Media introduced the topic and made some comments before leaving for a meeting. Pallab Chatterjee acted as back-up moderator for the panel. The panel members included Don Danh from East-West Bank, Kevin Gao from CA Solar, and Sandeep Sharma from Sandview [...]
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Victor Moroz from Synopsys discussed the design, modeling, and optimization of silicon solar cells and modules. Optimization must be across all levels of the system, from the silicon, to the cells, and to the modules through virtual prototypes. The challenges in improving PV efficiency are [...]
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Bozena Kaminska from IDme and Simon Fraser University proposed nano-particles in polymers to address cost and form factor issue in cells. Printed electronics on polymers offer the potential for practical cells and batteries. One of the challenges in solar applications is that wafer-based silicon has [...]
