EEE Co-sponsoring the 4^th WIMNACT-Singapore

The 4^th Workshop and IEEE EDS Mini-colloquium on NAnometer CMOS Technology (WIMNACTSingapore) was successfully held on July 12, 2004 in Singapore. This mini-colloquium was organized and sponsored by the IEEE Rel/CPMT/ED Singapore Chapter, and co-sponsored by the EDS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Program and Subcommittee for Regions/Chapters (SRC) as well as the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

The Guest-of-Honor was Prof. Meng Hwa Er, Deputy President and Dean, School of EEE, NTU, who delivered a welcome address to the invited guests and the audience. Chapter Chair, Prof. Kin Leong Pey, delivered the opening address and introduced Chapter activities to the audience. This was followed by brief introductions of the Silicon Technology, Nanoelectronics & Devices, and Computational Nano-Electronics Groups in the Microelectronics Division, NTU, who were the co-hosts of this event, by the respective Program Directors, Prof. Kin Leong Pey, Prof. Beng Kang Tay, and Prof. Xing Zhou, respectively.

There were five invited DL speakers, including four from overseas and one from the local Chapter. The first talk was given by Prof. Cary Yang from Santa Clara University entitled "Carbon Nanotubes as On-chip Interconnects," followed by the talk on "Trends on Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits," given by Prof. James Kuo of National Taiwan University. After lunch at the NTU staff club with the invited guests and Chapter committee members, Prof. Juin Liou from University of Central Florida gave the talk on "On-Chip Spiral Inductors for RF Applications: An Overview," following by the talk on "An Overview of CMOS Technology for RF IC Applications," given by Dr. Yuhua Cheng from Skyworks Solutions. The Workshop ended with the talk by Prof. Xing Zhou on "Technology-Based Predictive Compact Model Development for Next Generation CMOS." All the speakers were presented with a token of appreciation by the Chapter at the end of the Workshop.