Annual Report 2007 - The Australian Nanotechnology Network

SPIE Conference on Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics,
MEMS, Photonics and Nanotechnology
04/12/2007 - 07/12/2007 - ANU
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ARCNN funding for SPIE Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology
Symposium
Conference: Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics, MEMS,
Photonics and Nanotechnology
This bi-yearly symposium was held at the Australian National University from 4-7
Dec. 2007. It is a gathering of 5 different conferences as listed below:
− Microelectronics: Design, Technology, and Packaging III
− BioMEMS and Nanotechnology III
− Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics, MEMS, Photonics, and
Nanotechnology IV
− Photonics: Design, Technology, and Packaging III
− Complex Systems II
The symposium was organised by SPIE with the support of various scientific
committees on the technical programs. It was sponsored by ANU, ARCNN,
Bandwidth Foundry, COSNET, CUDOS and RPO. There were about 400 delegates
at the conference from about 27 countries. A good proportion of them are students
and early career researchers from within the country. 6 plenary lectures were given
by highly distinguished researchers in their respective fields:
− Gordon G. Wallace, University of Wollongong, 'Conducting Organic
Nanostructures and their use in Medical Bionics'
− Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, 'Recent Progress and Future Prospect of
Photonic Crystals'
− Martin Wegener, University of Karlsruhe, 'Photonic Metamaterials: Optics
Starts Walking on Two Feet'
− Stephen Hyde, Australian National University, 'Self-assembly In Vivo:
Manufacturing Photonic Devices in a Butterfly Chrysalis'
− Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University, 'Quantum Dots and
Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications'
− Vijay K. Varadan, University of Arkansas, 'Micro- and Nano-electronic
Packaging in Engineering, Life Sciences, and Medicine'
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