Preview: 2002 MRS Spring Meeting
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Preview: 2002 MRS Spring Meeting San Francisco Marriott and Argent Hotels • San Francisco, California Meeting: April 1–5 • Exhibit: April 2–4 Meeting Chairs: Zhenan Bao Lucent Technologies Eugene A. Fitzgerald Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ulrich M. Goesele Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics Kenneth P. Rodbell IBM T.J. Watson Research Center The 2002 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting will be held Monday– Friday, April 1–5, 2002, in San Francisco, Calif., at the San Francisco Marriott and Argent Hotels. The meeting will include 23 technical symposia; a plenary session on Wednesday evening; an equipment exhibit, with a reception for meeting participants on Tuesday evening; and tutorials, most held on Monday (see page 143). Symposia proceedings will be published on the MRS Web site, available free to MRS members. Registration will open Monday morning, with most symposia beginning on Tuesday morning. Symposium X, Frontiers of Materials Research, will feature three diverse topics ranging from entrepreneurship (“The Role of Venture Capital: Turning Science into Money” and “From Materials and Devices to Building and Selling a Company”) to “Materials in the History of Wine.” This year, the talks will be held Tuesday–Thursday at 4:30 p.m., instead of the lunch hour as in past years. Each talk will be followed by a networking session with light refreshments. With rapid growth in the area of Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials (Symposia A–L), the technical sessions feature invited presentations from DuPont on the development of a roll-toroll manufacturing process for polymer light-emitting displays, and several invited talks on the applications of bariumstrontium-titanate films, including an update on DARPA’s electronic project, “Will Fame Bring Fortune?” Photonic technologies have contributed to large economic expansions in which roadmaps predict that the growth rate for optical bandwidth exceeds that of electrical bandwidth. Symposium K focuses on III–V materials and devices for photonics and optoelectronics, with invited talks by S.G. Johnson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) on materials for solid-state 142
lighting and J.S. Harris Jr. (Stanford University) on GaInNAs as a new material for communications lasers. The meeting introduces Symposium J on texture and microstructure in electronic and magnetic films, addressing the fundamentals of crystallographic texture measurements in thin films. Symposium J will hold a joint session with Symposium E on magnetic materials for data storage, featuring an invited talk by M. Doerner from IBM’s Storage Technology Division. Several silicon-based symposia will cover areas ranging from junction-formation technologies in Si—through gate oxides, dielectrics, interconnects, and reliability— to a symposium on chemical-mechanical polishing. There will be a symposium on amorphous and heterogeneous Si-based films, as well as a symposium on defectand impurity-engineered semiconductors and devices. In the cluster on Molecular and Biomaterials (S
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