OVERVIEW
The emerging nanotechnologies and, in particular, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is on the verge of revolutionizing present day and future electronic systems. Without an appropriate environment, the design and timely implementation and time-to-market deployment of nano MEMS-based systems would be virtually hopeless, due to the design dimensions added by the multi-physics/multidomain nature of the nano devices. Thus, understanding the physics, nano technologies and MEMS design tools are essential to the successful commercialization of MEMS-based systems and its applications. Available CAD tools provide a virtual environment where all aspects of nano MEMS device design and production, from first principles physical simulation thru system-level device models to packaging and manufacturing process feasibility, can be concurrently explored.
The development, design and manufacturing of the nano MEMS involves a number of higher level issues like market impact, feasibility and is followed modeling analysis and simulation at various levels like system, device, physical and process. Many man-years of nano MEMS design development are traditionally captured in scientific papers, multiple internal documentations or design handbooks by the MEMS experts working on modeling, design or process development. The workshop transform the existing design and manufacturing know-how, including processing, material data, design and CAD tools and most comprehensive studies of the nano MEMS design tools to enable researchers and designers to fully exploit existing nanotechnologies or to transfer the know-how to other R&D groups.
This year's workshop has the aim to bridge interdisciplinary expertise in the nanotechnologies addressing its importance as well as enable effective transfer of the advanced nano design and manufacturing methodologies from the academia to the industry. This workshop welcomes anyone including researchers, practitioners, and students willing to learn more about: modeling, simulation, standards and architectural aspects of nano-devices and systems: physical characterization/modeling of nano-scale devices, circuits, systems as well as CAD flows and software tools.
Format
The workshop will consist of invited papers, which will be presented by the academic and industrial experts. A panel discussion will conclude the workshop.
Authors Guidelines
All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the Nano-Net 2009 conference proceedings, a LNICST volume of Springer. Authors should follow the Nano-Net 2009 submission format. An author's kit including templates is available.
Submission deadline: June 30, 2009
Workshop Chairs
Wladek Grabinski GMC Consulting
www.grabinski.ch/GMC
Workshop Program (preliminary list of talks is under development)
- Introduction to the nano-devices physics
- Selected aspects of the nanotechnology developments
- CAD flows and software tools for the nano-MEMS design