Message from EDS President, Ravi Todi

The Strategic Planning Workshop is taking place on 10-11 June 2022. I am eager to engage with the delegates in discussions about the future of the Society. What we expect for the outcome of the Workshop is a set of recommendations to be presented to the Board of Governors and Forum for implementation where appropriate. Specifically, the Workshop will affirm our vision statement, mission, strategic goals, and core values. It will also recommend a vision narrative and a deployment plan in the form of six Key Performance Indicators which are intended to assess how well the Society is progressing in realizing its vision.

2022 IEEE EDS William R. Cherry Award Winner Selected!

This year's award will be presented to Stephen R. Forrest at the 49th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), in Philadelphia.

The IEEE EDS William R. Cherry Award is named in honor of William R. Cherry, a founder of the photovoltaic community. In the 1950's, he was instrumental in establishing solar cells as the ideal power source for space satellites and for recognizing, advocating, and nurturing the use of photovoltaic systems for terrestrial applications. The William R. Cherry award was instituted in 1980, shortly after his death. The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual engineer or scientist who devoted a part of their professional life to the advancement of the science and technology of photovoltaic energy conversion.

EDS Early Career Award - Call for Nominations

The EDS Early Career Award was established to promote, recognize, and support early career technical development within the Electron Devices Society's field of interest. It is presented annually to honor an IEEE EDS member who has received his/her first professional degree (Bachelors) within the tenth year defined by the 15 August nomination deadline, making contributions in the field of interest of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

Upcoming IEEE EDS Distinguished Lectures and Mini-Colloquia

EDS sponsored Chapter events are planned throughout the year to bring high-quality lectures to students and professional colleagues, many at no cost to attendees and IEEE membership optional.

Several hybrid and virtual lectures are planned in the future for the benefit of remote attendees. Here are some upcoming lectures that may be of interest to students and professionals:

- Low Power Circuits: Technology Circuit Co-Design
- Impact, History and Future of Nanoelectronics
- Spin Based Multi-Level Cells for High-Density Memories
- Impact, History and Future of Nanoelectronics
- Organic Solar Cells: Fundamentals, Advances and Challenges

Ilesanmi Adesida, IEEE Fellow, and provost at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Adesida is an expert in the processing of semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer-scale level and in ultra-high-speed heterostructure field-effect transistors—the sort of transistors used in cell-phones, fiber optics communications, deep space communications, and other applications. His contributions have provided insights into the limits of advanced lithography and other nanofabrication techniques.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilesanmi_Adesida.

Presented by Dr. Colombo Bolognesi, IEEE Fellow, and Full Professor at ETH-Zurich in Switzerland, where he leads the Millimeter-Wave Electronics (MWE) Group. Date: 8 June 2022 For abstract, bio and registration, click here.

The IEDM's theme this year is “transformative devices to address global challenges.”
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers soon, as the call for papers deadline is Friday, 14 July 2022. The late-news submission deadline is 22 August 2022.

Soaring High-powered Excellence in ECE

A FREE one-day Summer Camp for female high school students will be held at New Jersey Institute of Technology on 22 July 2022.

Girls will have the opportunity to meet role models, ask questions, and learn about career and academic options in the fields of electrical engineering and computer engineering. The program includes a networking session, hands-on activities, as well as campus and lab tours.

There will also be options for application fee waivers and scholarships.

For questions, email Ryoko Mathes ([email protected]) or Teri Bass ([email protected]).

The IEEE Board of Directors has authorized a new Pilot Campaign Program that applies to IEEE President-Elect candidates for the 2022 and 2023 elections. As part of this pilot program, a “Meet the 2023 IEEE President-Elect Candidates Forum” will be held on Friday, 24 June 2022 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm PT.

Call for Papers - IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits

Prospective authors are invited to submit original works and/or extended works based on conference presentations on various aspects of compute-in-memory. Memory technologies of interest include (but not limited to) SRAM, DRAM, eDRAM, NOR/NAND Flash, and emerging NVM devices such as PCM, RRAM/CBRAM, STT-MRAM/SOT-MRAM (or other spintronic memories), FeFET (or other ferroelectric memories), etc. 

IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the MEMS areas with IEEE RightNow Access for J-MEMS. Enjoy temporary Open Access to selected featured papers from the latest J-MEMS edition.

Congratulations to the authors whose work was selected to be featured on the cover of Volume 31 Issue 3 (June 2022)