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Cornell’s Wooram Lee Receives SSCS Predoctoral Fellowship for 2010-2011 |
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 Wooram Lee, an RF specialist at Cornell University, has been awarded the Society’s Predoctoral Fellowship for 2010-2011. According to John Corcoran, the Chair of the Society’s evaluation committee, “The combination of his breadth and depth made it clear that he is a doctoral candidate with high potential for achievement.”
RF analog circuit design is “a perfect area,” said Mr. Lee. “In the stage of theory development, I can operate as scientist. In the schematic drawing and simulation stage, I perform with an engineering sense. In the layout stage, I become an artist: good RF circuit designs look beautiful due to their symmetry. When I get my chip back after fabrication, I can enjoy an experiment. The whole process is like a buffet.”
More about Mr. Lee's work will appear in the fall issue of the Solid-State Circuits Magazine.
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ISSCC Offers Full-length Videos of Plenary 2010 Talks |
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Delagi, Marek, Meindel, and Suzuki Spotlight the Future
//isscc.org/videos/2010_plenary.html#session1
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Harnessing Technology to Advance the Next-Generation Mobile User-Experience
“What we are doing today to make semiconductor processing more efficient is not keeping pace. Our challenge as an industry is to find and deliver an additional 100x in energy efficiency to stay ahead of the energy gap.” Greg Delagi, Senior Vice-President, Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX)
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MEMS for Automotive and Consumer Applications
“In the near future, ... MEMS-energy harvesters and μfuel cells for energy storage providing wireless, autonomous sensor nodes might be common place. MEMS sensors will enable applications never imagined before!" Jiri Marek, Senior Vice-President, Robert Bosch (Reutlingen, Germany) |
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Nanoelectronics in Retrospect, Prospect and Principle
“We hope to have the prospect within 10-15 years of bridging the discontinuity from the top of today’s S curve to the bottom of a new, third S curve just as we transitioned from the vacuum tube electronics S curve to the semiconductor technology S curve in the mid 20th century, due to the transistor and the integrated circuit. One of the prime candidates “to keep the technology rolling another half century is graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms forming hexagonal cells." James Meindl, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
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Challenges of Image-Sensor Development
"For the past 25 years, camera size has decreased by a factor of 500 as a result of pixel miniaturization, with image-sensor photosensitivity improving by ten-fold per decade. Developments in areas such as 3D imaging, back-side illumination, new materials, new structures, and new processes will pave the way for future image sensors with improved performance." Tomoyuki Suzuki, Senior Vice-President, (SONY, Atsui Kanagawa,Japan)
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