MTL Annual Research Conference 2005
Waterville Valley Conference & Event Center
Waterville Valley, NH
January 26-27, 2005
Agenda

The MTL Annual Research Conference (MARC 2005) will be held in Waterville Valley, NH on January 26-27, 2005. The objectives of MARC are to provide an MTL-wide forum for the presentation of the research achievements of the past year and to promote interaction between MTL students, faculty, and industry partners.

More scheduling details to be announced.

Wednesday, January 26
1:00-5:00PM Social Time / Networking
5:00-8:00PM Dinner and Speaker
Session Chair: Rafael Reif
Dinner Speaker: Martin F. Schlecht
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
SynQor
http://synqor.com/
   
Thursday, January 27
8:25-8:30AM Opening Remarks
Anantha Chandrakasan
8:30-9:30AM Session Chair: Jesus A. del Alamo
Keynote Speaker: Kelin Kuhn
45nm Device Manager
Portland Technology Development Center
Intel Corporation
http://www.intel.com/
9:30-10:30AM Presentations for Sessions 1, 2, & 3
10:30-1:00PM Posters for Sessions 1, 2, & 3
12:00-1:00PM Lunch
1:00-1:30 Presentations for Sessions 4 & 5
1:30-3:00 Posters for Sessions 4 & 5
3:30PM Buses depart for MTL

The tentative listing of poster sessions is as follows (this list is subject to revision):

Session I: Circuits and Systems
Session Organizers: Lane Brooks, Farinaz Edalat, Alexandra Kern, Charlotte Lau
Session Chairs: Alexandra Kern, Charlotte Lau
Wireless/Wireline
1.01 A 3.1-10.6GHz Pulsed Ultra-wideband Transceiver D.D. Wentzloff, R. Blazquez, B. Ginsburg, F.S. Lee, J. Powell, A.P. Chandrakasan
1.02 The µAMPS-2 Architecture: A Self Powered Wireless Sensor Node N. Verma, D.C. Daly, D.F. Finchelstein, N. Ickes, A.P. Chandrakasan
1.03 Wireless Gigabit Local Area Network F. Edalat, N. Matalon, J.K. Tan
1.04 Parallel Integrated Receivers and Outphase Linearization Techniques for the Wireless Gigabit LAN L. Khuon, A. Pham, C. Sodini
1.05 Low Noise, High Bandwidth Fractional-N Synthesis S.E. Meninger, M.H. Perrott
1.06 A 3.125 GB/s Limit Amplifier with 42 dB Gain in 0.18 µm CMOS Achieving 1 µs Offset Compensation E. Crain, M.H. Perrott
Power Electronics
1.07 Vibration-to-Electric Energy Harvesting Using a Mechanically-Varied Capacitor B.C. Yen, J.H. Lang
Imagers and Displays
1.08 CMOS-Compatible Compact Display A.R. Chen, H.S. Lee, T. Akinwande
1.09 Optical Feedback OLED Display Using Integrated Organic Technology K. Lamba, A. Lin, K. Ryu, I. Kymissis, V. Bulovic, C. Sodini
1.10 Intelligent Night-Vision Systems for future Y. Fang, W. Herrington, I. Masaki, B. Horn
CAD/Modeling
1.11 2D and 3D FPGA Design and CAD Flow F. Honore, Y.S. Kwon, P. Lajevardi, A.P. Chandrakasan, D. Troxel
1.12 Test Structures and Methodologies for Analysis of Variation in Integrated Circuits K. Gettings, M. Gazor, D. Lim
Session II: Emerging Technologies
Session Organizers: Karen Gettings, Osama Nayfeh, Annie Wang, Melinda Wong
Session Chairs: Karen Gettings, Osama Nayfeh, Melinda Wong
Novel Devices
2.01 Electron and Hole Mobility in Thin-Body Strained Si/Strained SiGe/Strained Si Heterostructures on Insulator I. Aberg, J.L. Hoyt
2.02 Extraction of Band Offsets in Strained Si/Strained Si1-YGEY on RelaxedSi1-XGEX Dual-Channel Enhanced Mobility Structures C. Ni Chleirigh, C. Jungemann, J. Jung, O. O. Olubuyide and J.L. Hoyt
2.03 Experimental Investigation of the Polysilicon Quantization Effect and the Applicability of Hydrodynamic Modeling for End-of-Roadmap FETs O.M. Nayfeh, D.A. Antoniadis
2.04 Modeling and simulation of pnp bipolar transistors using novel silicon heterostructures O. Olubuyide, J.L. Hoyt
2.05 Electrical Degradation Mechanisms of RF Power GaAs PHEMTs A.A. Villanueva, J.A. del Alamo
Power
2.06 RF Power Potential of 90 nm CMOS: Device Options, Performance, and Reliability J. Scholvin, J.A. del Alamo
Thermo
2.07 1D and 2D Photonic Crystals as Spectral Control Components for Thermophotovoltaic Applications N. Jovanovic, F. O'Sullivan, I. Celanovic, D. Perreault, T. Keim, J. Kassakian
2.08 High Power Density Thermoelectric Generation P. Mayer, R.J. Ram
Fabrication
2.09 Multi-layer Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits Enabled by Wafer Bonding C.S. Tan, A. Fan, K.N. Chen, and R. Reif
2.10 Fabrication Techniques for Passives in Power Electronics P. Cantillon Murphy, D.J. Perreault
2.11 Modeling Spatial Nonuniformities in IC and MEMS Processing K.O. Abrokwah, H. Cai, T. F. Hill, H. Sun, H.K. Taylor, X. Xie, D.S. Boning
2.12 New Laser Capabilities in MTL Fabs D. Ward, P. Tierney, K. Broderick, P. Burkhart, P. McGrath, D. Adams
Session III: Photonics
Session Organizers: Joseph Rumpler, Conor Madigan
Session Chairs: Joseph Rumpler
Phot. Dev.
3.01 Quantum Dot Light Emitting Devices and Displays S. Coe-Sullivan, J. Steckel, L. Kim, M. Bawendi, V. Bulovic
3.02 Faraday Rotation in Semiconductors for Photonic Integration T. Zaman, X. Guo, R.J. Ram
3.03 Layer-by-Layer J-Aggregate Thin Films with an Absorption Constant of 10^6 cm^-1 in Optoelectronic Applications M.S. Bradley, J.R. Tischler, V.Bulovic
3.04 New Light Trapping in Thin Film Solar Cells Using Textured Photonic Crystals L. Zeng, Y. Yi, C. Hong, X. Duan, L.C. Kimerling
Integrated Technology
3.05 Design and Fabrication of On-chip Optical Coupler from Single Mode Fiber to Single Mode Oxynitride Waveguide by CMOS Process V. Nguyen, T. Montalbo, C. Manolatou, A. Agarwal, J. Michel, L.C. Kimerling
3.06 Magnetically Assisted Statistical Assembly as a technique for Efficient Heterogeneous Materials Integration J. Rumpler, J. Perkins, C.G. Fonstad Jr.
3.07 Micro-scale Assembly, Bonding, and Monolithic Integration of III-V Devices in Recesses on Si IC Wafers M. Teo, V. Lei, C.G. Fonstad Jr.
Session IV: MEMS
Session Organizers: Antimony Gerhardt, Brian Taff
Session Chair: Antimony Gerhardt
BioMEMS
4.01 A Combined Microfluidic/Dielectrophoretic Micro-Organism Concentrator N. Gadish, J. Voldman
4.02 A Microfabricated Sorting Cytometer B.M. Taff, S.P. Desai
4.03 Ogston Sieving of Biomolecules in Regular Nanofilter Array J. Fu, J. Han
4.04 A Peristaltic Oxygenating Mixer for Miniature Integrated Bioreactors H.L.T. Lee, R.J. Ram
4.05 Million Fold Biomolecule Pre-concentration Using Nanofluidic Filters Y.C. Wang and J. Han
Power MEMS
4.06 An ElectroQuasiStatic Induction Turbine Generator L. Steyn, J. Lang, C. Livermore
4.07 Multi-Watt Electric Power from a Microfabricated Permanent Magnet Generator S. Das, D.P. Arnold, I. Zana, J.W. Park, J.H. Lang, M.G. Allen
4.08 Microchemical Systems for Fuel Processing and Conversion to Electrical Power O.M. Nielsen, B.A. Wilhite, B.S. Blackwell, K. Cheung, K.F. Jensen, M.A. Schmidt
4.09 A High-Q Widely-Tunable Gigahertz Electromagnetic Cavity Resonator S.M. Hou, J.H. Lang, A.H. Slocum, A.C. Weber, J.R. White
General
4.10 Direct Patterning of Organic Materials and Metals Using a Micromachined Printhead V. Leblanc, J. Chen, S.H. Kang, P.J. Benning, M.A. Baldo, V. Bulovic, M.A. Schmidt
4.11 Capacitance of Fracture Fabricated Single Crystal Silicon Nanosurface Pairs A.D. Sprunt, A.H. Slocum
4.12 Microchemical Systems E.R. Murphy, S.A. Khan, J.G. Kralj, N. de Mas, A. Guether, M.A. Schmidt, K. F. Jensen
Session V: Molecular and Nanotechnology
Session Organizers: Marc Baldo, Michael Segal, Tan Wu
Session Chair: Tan Wu
CNTS
5.01 Simple Growth of High-Quality Carbon Nanotube Films on Silicon Substrates J. Hart, A. Slocum
5.02 Templated Self-assembly of Nanoporous Alumina and its Applications

R. Krishnan, H.Q. Nguyen, W.K. Choi, Y.L. Foo, K. Nielsch, H. Smith, C.A. Ross, C. V. Thompson

5.03 The Effects of Topography on the Formation of Ordered Arrays
of Metallic Nano-particles
A. Giermann, C.V. Thompson
5.04 Carbon Nanotube Modification and Characterization T. M. Wu, B. Wunsch, F. Stellacci, R. Reif
Nanolithography
5.05 Nanoruler J. Montoya, R. Heilmann, M. Schattenburg
5.06 Nanostructured Origami W.J. Arora, H.J. In, P.S. Stellman, A. Nichol, S. Takahashi, S. Kumar, Yang S.H., H. I. Smith, G. Barbastathis
5.07 Molecular Circuit Fabrication Using Photosynthetic Proteins in Field Effect Transistor Geometries M. Segal, M. Baldo
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