IEMT Symposium Success at Semicon West
The 29th International Electronics Manufacturing Technology
(IEMT) Symposium was
held in San Jose, CA, in July 14-16, 2004, during Semicon West
week.
Co-sponsored by IEEE, the Components, Packaging and Manufacturing
Technology
(CPMT) Society, and SEMI, the Symposium provided an important
venue for
significant work in various areas of electronics manufacturing
technologies.
Topics covered this year included: how to meet process challenges
for the 90 nm
node, latest trends in final manufacturing, latest development
in advanced
packaging, materials, design for test, and reliability.
This year's IEMT has grown significantly, marking a couple
of firsts with six new
Professional Development Courses (PDCs) and a Technology Workshop
entitled
"Future Trends in Semiconductor Packaging" sponsored
by Henkel Loctite. There
were 69 papers distributed among eleven technical sessions and
one dedicated
poster session. Walt Trybula, from International Sematech, presented
the
keynote address on "Macro, Micro, Nano, and Beyond."
There were a total of 166 attendees, with close to 75 % of
the registrants from
the US, 15% from Asia and the remaining 10% from Europe.
Close to 100 registrants attended the six PDCs covering "Flip
Chip", "Advanced
Packaging", "Materials, Processes and Defects",
"Failure Mode Analysis",
"Nanotechnology", and "Lead-Free Soldering".
There were over 120 attendees at
the Henkel Technology Workshop, which covered the latest development
in areas of
Low-k Devices and Cu Interconnect, Lead-free Material Sets, Green
Packages, 3D
Architectures for Packaging, Thermal Management, and, High Speed
Dispensing.
Hosting the IEMT in conjunction with Semicon West also provided
plenty of
opportunities for networking in a large trade show environment.
Next year,
along with Semicon West, IEMT will move to the Moscone Center
in San Francisco,
CA. A Call For Papers will be issued in the near future. Keep
those papers
coming! For the Call for Papers, see www.cpmt.org/iemt/
PICTURES:
Lively discussion at the poster session.
Registration desk on registration day.
Walt Trybula, keynote speaker.
Walt Trybula, explaining the finer points of nanotechnologies.
Aside from the papers, there was also good food at the poster session
--submitted by Luu Nguyen, National Semiconductor Corporation