Preview: 2008 MRS Spring Meeting
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Preview: 2008 MRS Spring Meeting Moscone West and San Francisco Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. Meeting: March 24–28 • Exhibit: March 25–27 www.mrs.org Meeting Chairs: Jeffrey C. Gelpey Mattson Technology Robert J. Hamers University of Wisconsin–Madison Paul Muralt Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Christine A. Orme Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The 2008 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting will be held March 24–28, 2008 in San Francisco, Calif. The technical meeting and exhibits will be located at the Moscone West Convention Center, and will include 41 symposia. To complement the scientific sessions, tutorials will provide a detailed introduction to particularly exciting areas of research, and the Equipment Exhibit will showcase products of interest to the materials community. The scientific sessions will include many new and developing areas of materials research as well as some well-established and popular topics. The cluster on Electronics, Magnetics, and Photonics (comprising Symposia A–N) will include presentations on the science and technology of amorphous and polycrystalline thin-film silicon; advances in GaN, GaAs, SiC, and related alloys on silicon substrates; siliconcarbides; and functional plasmonics and nanophotonics. With the continuation of evolutionary scaling of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor devices, scaling becomes increasingly problematic owing to short channel effects and excessive power dissipation. Revolutionary device concepts—disruptive approaches—based on noncharge logic variables are therefore important for enabling “beyond CMOS” scaling in about 15–20 years from now. Symposium B will present a one-day symposium on materials and device technologies that can enable realization of novel information processing technologies of relevance in the time frame after 2019. The cluster on Nanomaterials, Fundamentals, and Characterization (Symposia O–Z) features symposia on nanowires, carbon nanotubes, nanoscale tribology, and the mechanics of nanoscale materials as well as other topics. The cluster also
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includes Symposium Z on Materials Structures—The Nabarro Legacy, a special one-day event focusing on the impact of Frank Nabarro’s work over the last 66 years, specifically on dislocation theory and its impact on a variety of materials and processes. Invited speakers include Gerhard Dehm (Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Leoben, Austria), Yuichi Ikuhara (University of Tokyo, Japan), Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (Univ. of Virginia), Bill Nix (Stanford University), and Alexei Romanov (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia); complementary contributions will be presented during a poster session. The cluster on Polymers and Biomaterials (Symposia AA–GG) will feature a number of talks on the interface of biomaterials and biomedicine. Aging of biological tissues is traced to changes in mechanical properties of tissues. Malaria has a dramatic influence on cell stiffness. The performance and diseases of lungs are associated w
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