NTNE2006 Key theme sessions and speakers
Key note session / congress opening
Session chairman:
Yrjö Neuvo , Professor and Technology Advisor, prev. Senior Vice President of Nokia Corporation
Key note speakers:
Bob Iannucci, Senior Vice President, Head of Nokia Research Center
Sumio Iijima , Senior Research Fellow, NEC Corporation, Japan
Nicholas Hartley, Head of the Unit, Strategy and Policy, European Commission
Livio Baldi , Director, STMicroelectronics, ENIAC support group
Nanotube Applications
Carbon nanotubes were discovered in 1991 by Dr Sumio Iijima, key note speaker at NTNE2006. Nanotubes posses many unique properties and are expected to become a key material for numerous nanotechnology applications, including e.g. next generation electric devices and fuel cells.
Session topics include:
Developments in CNT synthesis
Control of electric characteristics
Device structure design
Fabrication process development
Session chairman:
Sumio Iijima, Senior Research Scientist, NEC Corporation, Japan
Speakers:
Esko Kauppinen, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Pierangelo Gröning, EMPA, Switzerland
Annick Loiseau, Onera, France
Markus Ahlskog, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Christofer Hierold , ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Molecular and quantum electronics
Molecular electronics attempts to use individual molecules as functional units of electric circuitry. This new approach may provide a way to miniaturise circuits to hundreds of times smaller scales than is conceivably attainable using current semiconductor technology.
Session topics include:
Development of molecular-level electronic devices
Measurement and characterization of molecular
Self-assembly of nanostructures
Session chairman:
Jouko Korppi-Tommola, Professor, Director, NanoScience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Invited speakers:
Jean Philippe Bourgoin, CEA, France
Lars Samuelson, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
Päivi Törmä, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Nanophotonics
Nanophotonics is the utilization of light-matter interactions in the nanometer-scale to develop novel optoelectronic devices that can have clearly superior properties to coventional devices.
The global market for nanophotonic devices is projected to rise at an average annual growth rate of 86% from $420 million in 2004 to $9.3 billion in 2009. In 2003, nanophotonic light-emitting diodes, with flat panel and plasma display applications, accounted for more than three-quarters of the market. Other applications were near-field optics and nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells.
In the future, nanophotonics has the potential to change communication technologies in a profound way. Applications under development include light emitters, sources, detectors, transmission and switching devices. Linking of nanophotonics to the development in molecular-level electronics can open up entirely new possibilities.
Session topics include:
Photonic crystal structures
Nanometer-scale structuring for enhanced light-matter interactions
Nanolithography
Optical amplifiers and lasers
Nano-photonic devices
Session chairman:
Markus Pessa, Professor, Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Speakers:
Dieter Bimberg, Professor, Executive Director, Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, TU Berlin, Germany
Donal Bradley, Professor, Imperial College, UK
Anatoli Grudynin, Fianium
Niels Asger Mortensen, Professor, Technical University of Denmark & Crystal Fibre
Wolfgang Stein, K-analys AB
Tapio Niemi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Printed electronics
Printed electronics is a fast developing field that offers new methods to printing electronic circuits using organic conducting or electroluminescent materials. Applications such as flexible displays and intelligent food packaging are not attainable using conventional electronics fabrication methods. Moreover, printed electronics offers cost effetive solutions to mass production.
The printed electronics session focuses on application potentials in consumer electronic, mobile and intelligent environment applications.
Session topics include:
Displays
Sensors
RFID
Hybrid media
Session chairman:
Harri Kopola, Professor, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Speakers:
Ghassan Jabbour, Professor, Arizona State, USA
Jaap Lombaers, TNO, Netherlands
Arto Maaninen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Juha Rantala , Silecs
Klaus Ludwig, PolyIC
Nanoelectronics packaging
IMAPS Advanced Technology Workshop (ATW) on Nanotechnology in Microelectronics Packaging and Packaging of Nanoelectronics. ATW is organized as an integrated part of NTNE2006 Congress by IMAPS, International Microelectronics And Packaging Society.
This workshop brings people from research and industry together to display and discuss specific opportunities offered by Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for solving Microelectronics' packaging and interconnect problems and needs. Simultaneously same workshop works on resolving the delicate challenges of getting Nanoelectronics interconnected with Microelectronics and the hardware where it is integrated. Packaging and Interconnects issues are not limited to enable functionality but need to assure fault free functionality in different environments for the time span envisioned.
Topics:
Materials
Deposition methods
Assembly and Manipulation
Testing and measuring
Reliability assessment
Applications
Session chairman:
Paul Collander, President, IMAPS Europe
Speakers:
Rolf Aschenbrenner, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Dana Hammer-Fritzinger , Nanodynamics Inc.
Christofer Hierold , ETHZ Zurich, Switzerland
Gaetan Menozzi, Memscap
Simon Brown, Nano Cluster Devices Ltd
The workshop is open to all delegates of NTNE2006 Congress. IMAPS Members are entitled to a 10 % reduction on the congress registration fee.
Nanotechnology instruments and tools
Instruments and tools key theme session introduces latest developments in nanotechnology intrumentation, measurement technology, modeling and software tools. Congress participants can meet the leading instrument manufacturers in the NTNE2006 exhibition.
Session chairman:
Esko Kauppinen, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Session speakers include:
Jens Greiser, FEI Company
Marc Beck , Obducat
Morten Stilling, Atomistix
Hua Jiang , Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Nanotechnology and safety
The potential benefits of nanotechnology to society are enormous: cleaner and more efficient energy production and distribution, new ways to prevent and cure diseases, more efficient manufacturing methods, fast and efficient electronics and communication devices, new technology for environmental protection and so on.
At the same time, attention must be given safety aspeacts of nanotechnology. When moving toward the commercialisation of an increasing number of nanotechnology products, it is important to develop procedures for risk assessment and management for secure industrial production of nanoscale materials.
The key theme session gives an overview of the current situation and the general framework needed for risk assessment and management. The discussion extends to industrial point of view: what are the responsibilities of nanotechnology companies and how to prepare for the future?
In addition, a targeted workshop is arranged in the afternoon of May 17 for specialists working in the area of safety and risk assessment. Contributions to this workshop and the congress poster session are accepted through the congress abstract submission.
Workshop topics include:
Development of methodology for measurement and charaterization
Toxicology of nanoparticles
Risk factor identification and risk prediction
Key-theme session chairman:
Kai Savolainen, Professor, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Confirmed speakers:
Harri Vainio, Director General, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Andrew Jamison, Professor, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Francois Tardif, CEA-Minatec, France
Commercialising nanotechnology
This session provides a link from the technological development of nanotechnology to the challenges of moving toward commercialisation and industrial production of nanotechnology applications.
The session is supported by Nordic Innovation Centre.
Topics include:
Challenges in moving
from science to business
IPR questions
Safety and risk assesment questions related to business
Session chairman:
Pekka Koponen, Managing Director, Spinverse Consulting, Finland
Session opening:
Kjetil Storvik, Managing Director, Nordic Innovation Centre, Norway
Confirmed speakers:
Pekka Savolainen , Manager, Laser Competence Centre Finland
Steven R Ludwig, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, USA
Jari Koskinen, VTT, Finland
Del Stark , Nanoforum
Nils Nordell , Electrum Laboratory, KTH, Sweden
Surrounding Events
In addition to the congress key theme sessions, NTNE 2006 includes a number of joining workshops and seminars that focus on selected topics for different target audiences.
- Nanotech Venture Forum
- IRC Partnering Event
- NAoMITEC Brokerage Event
- Finland's National Nanotechnology Programme Seminar
- IMAPS Advanced Technology Workshop
( = Nanoelectronics packaging session described above)
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