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Solid State Seminars Series IBM Lecture Series

Solid State Seminars (S3)


Tuesdays, 12:30 to 1:30

Engr. Boardroom (Fitzpatrick 258)

Welcome to the Solid State Seminar series web page.The topics covered in this series of seminars cover a wide range of topics in solid state devices (materials, growth, devices), nanotechnology, and recent progress in bio-electronics. Speakers are chosen from universities and research laboratories around the country and abroad (including speakers from the Notre Dame community, Faculty, Post Docs and Graduate students as well).

No. Date Speaker/ Affiliation Talk Video More info.
1. Jan. 20,
2004
 Dr. Debdeep Jena
EE, Notre Dame
 Polarization doping in nitrides and spintronic applications.  ***  Web, Bio
2. Jan 27,
2004
 Dr. Ken Kuno
Chemistry, Notre Dame
 Semiconductor nanowires and blinking quantum dots  TBA  Web, Bio
3. Feb. 3,
2004
 Qingmin Liu  Nanoelectronic approach for lowering power in differential amplifiers.  ***  Web, Bio
4. Feb.10,
2004
 Prof. Craig Lent  Fundamental limits in binary computing    
5. Feb. 17,
2004
 Prof. Wolfgang. Porod
EE, Notre Dame
  Dissipation in computation    
6. Feb 24,
2004
 Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh
University of Illinois at
Chicago
 Self-assembled quantum dots for photonics and spintronics    
7. March 2,
2004
 Martiqua Post
& Dmitriy Orlov
Graduate Student
Aerospace & Mechanical
  The plasma actuator: theory and application    
8. March 16,
2004
  Dane Wheeler
Graduate Student
EE, Notre Dame
 Interference-based optical logic in silicon    
9. March 23,
2004
 Prof. Jim Merz
EE, Notre Dame
 Near-field spectroscopy and nanoindentation
of semiconductor quantum dots
   
10. March 30,
2004
 Prof.Steve Ruggiero
Physics, Notre Dame
 Superconducting refrigerators and bolometric
sensors for astronomy and materials science
   
11. April 6,
2004
 Prof. Lars-Erik Wernersson
Univ. of Lund, Sweden
 High speed analog resonant tunneling diode applications    
12. April 13,
2004
 Kameshwar Yadavalli
Graduate Student
EE, Notre Dame
  Single electron memories    
13. April 20,
2004
 Dr. Mike Manfra
Bell Laboratories
 MBE growth and quantum transport of gate tunable high mobility AlGaN/GaN heterostructures    

IBM Lecture Series   Back to Top

Date Speaker/
Affiliation
Topic    Place/Time  Bio/
Abstract
Seminar
Pictures
 1/28/04 Dr. Jeff Hedrick
IBM Research
Global Technology
Outlook
Auditorium, Hesburgh Center
for International Studies
9:15-10:15
 .pdf file  Yes
 1/28/04 Dr. Thomas Theis
IBM Research
Nanotechnology
and the Future
of Information
Technology
Auditorium, Hesburgh Center
for International Studies/
10:30-11:30
 .pdf file  Yes
2/19/04 Dr. Jonathan Bird
ASU
Spontaneous Magnetism
in Nonmagnetic Nanowires!
Fitzpatrick 258 .pdf file  
3/12/04 Dr. Nicholas Carter
Univ.of Illinois
Magnetoelectronic Reconfigurable Logic

Fitzpatrick 258
3:30-4:30

.pdf file  
4/28/04 Dr. Robert D. Shull
Group Leader, Magnetic Mat'ls Group, NIST
Magnetic Nanocomposites:
The Next Generation Magnets
Fitzpatrick 258
3:30-4:30
.pdf file

 

 

10/7/04 Dr. Gerald J. Iafrate
Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
Studies of Quantum Dynamics in Simple Systems Fitzpatrick 258
3:30-5:00
.pdf file  
10/22/04
Dr. David J. Frank
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Parameter Variations in Sub-100nm MOS Technology Fitzpatrick 258
3:30-5:00
.pdf file  
11/1/04 Dr. Botond Roska
Harvard University
Structure and Function of Retinal Circuits. Fitzpatrick 258
3:30-5:00
.pdf.file