FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

54TH ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

www.ectc.net

To be held in Las Vegas, Neada, USA, June 1-4, 2004

The ECTC is the premier international electronics symposium that brings together the best in packaging, components and microelectronic systems science, technology and education in an environment of cooperation and technical exchange. The ECTC is jointly sponsored by the Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society of the IEEE and the Electronics Industries Association. You are invited to sumit abstraccts that provide non-commercial information on new developments, technology and knowledge in the following areas:

Advanced Packaging

New packaging technologies, systems packaging, designs, materials and configurations addressing performance density and cooling for single chip, multichip, wafer-level, MEMS and power packages. Special emphasis on flip-chip, fine pitch and high lead count packaging in CSP, BGA, CGA, LGA, SMT packages.

Components and RF

New passive or active component technologies, integrated - embedded components, RF and wireless component applications, component performance, and systems and reliability.

Education:

Education for engineering curricula in the 21st century and collaborative research and engineering programs between universities, government, or industry; development and the use of multimedia for packaging education.

Interconnections:

First level electronic interconnection technologies including, flip chip, 3D interconnect, lead-free, MEMS interconnect, under bump metallurgy, substrate metallurgy and interconnect (HDI and microvia), wire-bonding, TAB, conductive polymers for interconnect (ICA, ACF, ACP, NCP), wafer and device level interconnection, electrical issues of advanced interconnect structures and novel interconnects.

Manufacturing Technology

Processes and equipment for wafer thinning, bumping and stacking, chip packaging, high density and embedded component substrates, test and burn-in. Emphasis on cost, yield, performance and environmental improvements, process characterization, new product introduction and ramp, design for flexible manufacturing and testing.

Materials and Processing

Technology, development and application of adhesives, encapsulants, flip chip underfills, solders and alloys, magnetic and optical materials, ceramics, composites, dielectrics, thin films, thermal materials, bonding and plating processes.

Modeling and Simulation

Electrical, thermal, optical, mechanical modeling, simulation, characterization and packaging solutions, including system-level applications.

Optoelectronics

Packaging for fiber-optic modules, infra-red wireless, consumer optoelectronics, flat-panel, projection and microdisplays, solid state lighting, optical amplifiers, lasers, detectors, OEICs, optical data interconnect, optical backplanes, passive components, and WDMs.

Posters

Papers may be submitted on any of the listed major topics; presentation of papers in a poster format is highly encouraged at ECTC.

Quality and Reliability

Assessment, failure analysis, reliability testing and data analysis, failure and acceleration models, qualification of components and systems, KGD, incremental quality improvement, and TQM

Submittals

You are invited to submit a 750-word abstract that describes the scope, content, and key points of your proposed paper via the website at www.ectc.net. If you have an questions. contact:

Patrick Thompson, Texas Instruments, Inc

PO Box 655012, MS940
Dallas, TX 75265 USA
Email: patrick.thompson@it.com
Phone: +1 972 995 7660; Fax: +1 972 995 2658
 
Abstracts must be received by October 15, 2003
Abstracts should be in MS word (preferred), ASCII (text), Adobe Acrobat (pdf), or html formats. Please check the website for details on how to submit abstracts electronically. You must include the mailing address, business telephone number, FAX number and email address of presenting author(s) and affiliations of all authors with your submission. At the discretion of the program committee, submitted abstracts may be considered for poster presentaion.
 
Professional Development Courses:
In addition to abstracts for papers, proposals are solicited from individuals interested in teaching educational professional development courses (4 hours) on topics described in the Call for Papers. Proposals including course descriptions must be submitted by October 15, 2003 to:
Al Puttlitz, ECTC Professional Development Chair
7 Arcadia Circle, Jericho, VT 05465
Phone: +1 802 899 4692
email: a.f.puttlitz@ieee.org