1st FoNE Conference, Nanoelectronics 2008 : European Science Foundation

Abstract

The 1^stFoNE Conference, Nanoelectronics 2008, will gather for three days physicists, chemists, and electrical engineers, for discussion and presentation of research results in nanoelectronics in the broadest sense, including both the investigation of the unique properties of matter at the nanoscale and the quest for a technology to realize terascale integrated systems.

All topics relevant to FoNE projects will be addressed, so that the conference will be an opportunity to put activity in FoNE in the context of the international research in nanoelectronics.

Scientific Case

Nanoelectronics is not just a hot interdisciplinary research field, is also one that has multiple definitions in different scientific communities. Condensed matter physicists tends to see nanoelectronics as the science aiming at the use of properties of matter emerging at the nanometer scale for information processing, transmission and storage. Chemists’ view of nanoelectronics focuses on the creation of nanometer scale structures with properties fundamentally different from molecular properties and at the same time usable for information processing. Electrical engineers interpret nanoelectronics as the natural evolution of microelectronics, and benchmark emerging devices and materials at the nanometer scale with current silicon technology in terms of perspectives of near (or long) term manufacturability, and expected performance of a complete large scale integrated system.

This conference will bring together scientists from the different communities for three days, providing to participants a broad view of nanoelectronics covering both the investigation of the properties of molecules and nanostructured matter and the requirements of systems consisting of billions of electron devices.

During the three days meeting it will be possible to present FoNE projects and results, and to cover a broader range of subjects.

The event will take place in Taormina, Italy, at the Hotel Villa Diodoro. .

Taormina– a world-renowed town in Sicily –closed between the Etna Vulcan and the sea, will offer the perfect venue for the FoNE scientists to interact.

Organizing Committee

Prof. Vladimir Falko, University of Lancaster, UK, CRP SpiCo
Prof. Herwig Peterlik, University of Vienna, Austria, CRP IMPRESS
Prof. Giuseppe Iannaccone, IEIIT-CNR Pisa, Italy, CRP DEWINT
Dr. Chris Marrows, University of Leeds, UK, CRP SPINCURRENT
Prof. Bogdan Bulka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, CRP SPINTRA
Dr. Antonella Di Trapani, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, FoNE Programme Manager
Ms. Catherine Lobstein, European Science Foundation, FoNE Programme Administrator.

Invited Speakers

The invited speakers are:

Professor Rolf Haug, University of Hannover, Germany (confirmed)
Professor Jonathan Bird, State University of New York, Buffalo, United States (confirmed)
Professor Guido Meier, University of Hamburg, Germany (confirmed)
Prof. Joerg Appenzeller, Purdue University, Indiana, United States (confirmed)
Dr. Jamie Warner, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (confirmed)

Registration and Abstract submission

For registering and submitting the abstract for this conference please follow this link by using the ID number and Password which have been sent to you by email.

http://www2.esf.org/WD110AWP/WD110Awp.exe/CONNECT/EUR_Regform?id=5309

Deadline for registration and submssion of abstracts: 31 March 2008, midnight CET.

Programme and List of Participants

The Programme for the three days Conference is below:

Day 1	Sun 29 June 2008
12-30-17.30	Arrival
17.30-19.30	Registration Hotel Villa Diodoro
19.30-20.00	Welcome by ESF
20.30-22.00	Welcome Cocktail at Hotel Villa Diodoro

Day 2	Mon 30 June 2008
Morning	SPINTRA Session	Chair:
9.00-9.50	J. Bird (Invited)	Detecting Bound Spins with Quantum Point Contacts
9.50-10.20	F. Aliev	Magnetization dynamics in spintronic devices
10.20-10.40	S. Brems	Magnetization reversal and domain structure in the polycrystalline Co/CoO exchange bias systems
10.40-11.00	P. Stefanski	Correlation induced Spin Current Polarizer
11.00-11.20	Coffee Break
11.20-11.50	V. Novak	Syngularity in temperature derivative of resistivity in (Ga, Mn)As at the Curie point
11.50-12.10	P. Lucignano	Spin Hall conductivity in the presence of magnetic field: a toy model
12.10-12.30	M. Misiorny	Current-induced magnetic switching of a single-molecule magnet
12.30-12.50	E. De Ranieri	Effect of strain relaxation on the anisotropic magnetoresistance of GaMnAs microbars
12.50-15.00	Lunch
Afternoon	SpiCo Session	Chair:
15.00-15.50	R. Haug (Invited)	Coherence and Correlations in trasnport through Quantum Dots
15.50-16.20	S. De Franceschi	Quantum Transport in hybrid semiconductor nanowire devices
16.20-16.40	E. Storace	Preparation and characterization of epitaxially grown III-V nanowires
16.40-17.00	M.Duckheim	Mesoscopic fluctuations in the spin susceptibility of disordered electron systems
17.00-17.20	Coffee Break
17.20-17.50	V. Falko	Electronic properties of graphene-based nanostructures
17.50-18.10	K. Kechedzhi	Quantum transport in graphene
18.30-19.30	Scientific committee meeting
20.00-22.00	Dinner	in one of the city's restaurants- free evening

Day 3	Tues 1 July 2008
Morning	SPINCURRENT session	Chair:
9.00-9.50	G. Meier (Invited)	Soft-X-Ray Microscopy of Magnetic Vortex and Domain-Wall Motion
9.50-10.20	B. Hickey	Resonant inversion of spin polarisation in MgO-based tunnel junctions
10.20-10.40	S. Lepadatu	Resonance of Domain Wall Movement in Notched Structures Induced by Spin Polarized Current
10.40-11.00	C. Zinoni	Dynamics of single domain walls driven by current
11.00-11.20	Coffee break
11.20-11.50	M. Viret	High frequency response of a single, macroscopic domain wall
11.50-12.10	I. Kuzmenko	Magneto-resistance in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions
12.10-12.40	C. Marrows	Domain Wall Spintronics in L1_0 ordered epitaxial films
12.40-15.00	Lunch
Afternoon	DEWINT session	Chair:
15.00-15.50	J. Appenzeller (Invited)	Nanoelectronics- Why 1D offers unique opportunities to reduce power consumption
15.50-16.30	Z. Chen	Carbon- Nanoelectronics
16.30-17.00	G. Iannaccone	Physical Insights into the performance of MOSFETs based on silicon nanowires, carbon nanotubes or graphene nanostripes
17.00-17.20	Coffee break
17.20-17.40	M. De Souza	Schottky barrier heights of CNTFETs- an insight from theory and experiment
17.40-18.00	A. Taharoui	Early stage demonstration of fabrication methodologies suitable for physical characterization of individual CNTs
18.00-18.20	C. Durkan	Structural resolution of CNTs via Scanning Probe Microscopy
18.20-18.40	D. Casterman	Charge controlled doping techniques for unipolar conduction in Carbon
20.00-22.00	Dinner	in one of the city's restaurants-free evening

Day 4	Wed 2 July 2008
Morning	IMPRESS Session	Chair:
9.00-9.50	J. Warner (Invited)	Understanding electron spin interactions in carbon nano-peapods
9.50-10.20	R. Brown	Propagation of Electron to Nuclear Spins for a Quantum Nuclear Memory
10.20-11.10	H. Peterlik	Filling of Carbon Nanotubes
11.10-11.30	Coffee Break
11.30-13.00	Poster Session
13.00-15.00	Lunch
15.00-18.30	Parallel CRP Sessions
20.00-22.00	Social dinner	Ristorante 'Bella Blu'

Day 5	Thurs 3 July 2008
	Departure

Book of Abstracts

The List of Oral Abstracts and Poster Abstracts can be downloaded here.

List of participants

The list of participants can be found here

Practical Information

Venue

The venue of the Conference will be Hotel Villa Diodoro. Click here for exact location.

Delegates will be staying mainly at this Hotel or at Hotel Monte Tauro, which is only 300 m away from the conference venue. Click here for exact location.

The Rooming list will be sent to you only after registration has been completed.

Please note that the FoNE Programme covers only the nights from the 29 June to 3 July. Extra nights must be paid by you and you need to make your own arrangments with the hotels.

PL/PI/AP will be staying in single rooms.

Project Members (PhD and PostDocs) will be required to share a room.

If you decide to come accompanied you need to cover the difference between single and double room occupancy. We cannot garantee that if you are coming accompanied there are rooms available. Please contact ESF office if this is possible.

How to reach Taormina

By plane

Catania Fontanarossa International is the nearest and most convenient airport at some km. 55 from Taormina. It features several flights from the major Italian cities such as Milan , Rome , Naples , Florence, Pisa, Venice , etc ( Alitalia , Meridiana , Air Europe , Alpi Eagles, Air One, EasyJet ) and many international direct flights from important european cities such as London (by British Airways), Bruxelles (by Bruxelles Airlines) , Paris (By Meridiana and Wind Jet), Munich and Frankfurt (by TUIFly), Berlin (by Air Berlin), Vienna (by SkyEurope), Barcelona (by Meridiana) , Malta (by Air Malta), Vienna (by Sky Europe), Prague (by Meridiana), Zurich (by Helvetic) and many more. Lots of charter flights from all over the world land to Catania too.

By Train

The Taormina-Giardini Naxos railway station is considered one of Italy's most beautiful because of its elegant and charming Sicilian Liberty style décor.

The train schedule for Taormina can be found at the website www.trenitalia.com

From Taormina's railway station you can reach the centre of Taormina by bus (see --> By Bus --> From Taormina/Giardini-Naxos train station ) or by Taxi (approximate cost Euro 15.00).

Please note that the cost of Taxi won't be reimbursed.

By bus

Travelling in Sicily by confortable buses is a very smart idea : they are fast, reliable and cheap and can take the traveller almost everywhere. Taormina has its own modern bus terminal right in the town centre . Frequent buses (Company "Interbus") run from Palermo, Catania (airport included) and Messina. Moreover there are easy connections from Rome and Amalfi (company Interbusiness), Bari, Brindisi (ferries from Greece) and Taranto (company Etna) .

We reccomend that you use the bus to reach Taormina from Catania Airport. It takes on average 1h. The cost of a single ticket is only 5€.

The timetable can be found here.

Alternatively, there are local buses leaving from the Central Railway Station in Catania and it takes approximately 2 hours to go via the inner roads. To get to the Central Railway Station in Catania you must take a city bus called Alibus, which leaves every 20 minutes from the airport to the Central Station Square (Piazza della Stazione). From there, several buses or trains go to Taormina daily.

The Timetable can be found here.

The Taormina bus stazione is a 10-minute walk from the centre of town, while the Taormina Railway Station is located in Giardini-Naxos, along the coast.

Taormina is high atop Monte Tauro and in order to arrive in Taormina from the Giardini-Naxos train station, you must take a local bus or taxi (a 10-minute drive).

Please note that the cost of taxis won't be reimbursed.

By car

Sicily features excellent highways (look for the green road signs) and Taormina can be reached by car from every main Italian City. From northern Italy one can drive along highway A1 through Naples and Salerno; then from Salerno (the Amalfi coast & Capri area) drive along the panoramic free highway A3 in the direction of Reggio Calabria. Take exit "Villa S. Giovanni - Sicilia", then go to the harbor. From the harbor take one of the ferries which run very frequently. The "Caronte" company is the most recommended. (Park and lock your car on the ferry and enjoy a fantastic ride from the sun-deck, it is very safe!) You can connect to the mainland of Sicily (Messina) 24 hours a day.

Once you arrive at the port of Messina, if you have time, stop and try the famous refreshing "granita" (ices), a typical specialty of the city.

Once in Messina, take highway A18 in the direction of Catania driving with the beautiful coastline on your left for about 30 minutes, and then take the exit for "Taormina". If you are coming from Catania, take highway A18 in the direction of Messina and take the exit for "Taormina". If you are coming from Palermo take highway A19 to Catania and then take highway A18 in the direction of Messina exiting at "Taormina".

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