Three plenary presentations will be given by experts in energy harvesting, steep subthreshold devices, and memory.

Stuart Parkin, IBM Fellow and Manager, Magnetoelectronics, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA Racetrack Memory: a storage class memory based on current controlled magnetic domain wall motion

Dr. Stuart S.P. Parkin is an experimental physicist at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. His discoveries into the behavior of thin-film magnetic structures were critical in enabling recent increases in the data density and capacity of computer hard-disk drives. In May 1991, Parkin was awarded the Materials Research Society's Inaugural Outstanding Young Investigator Award and the Charles Vernon Boys Prize of the Institute of Physics (U.K.). In 1999, he was awarded the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize for Industrial Application of Physics. Dr. Parkin shared both the American Physical Society's International New Materials Prize (1994) and the European Physical Society's Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1997) with Albert Fert of University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Peter Grunberg of KFA Julich in Germany. Dr. Parkin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1997, he was elected to IBM's Academy of Technology and named one of IBM's Master Inventors. In 1999 he was named an IBM Fellow -- IBM's highest technical honor -- and in May 2000 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (London). R&D Magazine named Dr. Parkin "Innovator of the Year" in 2001. Since 1997, he has served as a Consulting Professor in Applied Physics at Stanford University. A native of Watford, England, Dr. Parkin received his B.A. (1977) and was elected a Research Fellow (1979) at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, and was awarded his Ph.D (1980) at the Cavendish Laboratory, also in Cambridge. He joined IBM in 1982 as a World Trade Post-doctoral Fellow, becoming a permanent member of the staff the following year.

Chris Van Hoof, Department Director, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium Is There a Sweet Spot for Energy Harvesting ?

Chris Van Hoof is Department Director (Heterogeneous Integrated Microsystems) at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium and at the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He is also Program Director (HUMAN++ - Smart Implants). His work focuses on ULP design and technologies for wireless autonomous transducers, 3D imaging systems, and technology for wearable and smart implantable devices. After a PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Leuven, 1992) in collaboration with IMEC, he became successively Manager of the detector systems group (in 1998), Director of the Microsystems and Integrated Systems Department (in 2002), Program Director (in 2007), and Director of the cross-border Heterogeneous Integrated Microsystems Department (in 2009). He is a laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences and since 2000 a part-time professor at the University of Leuven.

Chenming Calvin Hu, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley Reduce IC Power Consumption by >10x with a Green Transistor?

Dr. Chenming Calvin Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley. He was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, world's largest dedicated integrated circuits manufacturing company from 2001 to 2004. He was the founding chairman of Celestry Design Technologies that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. He was the board chairman of the non-profit East Bay Chinese School, Oakland, CA. Dr. Hu is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica; a fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Physics; and an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science Microelectronics Institute, and National Chiao Tung University. In 1997, Dr. Hu received the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award for contributions to transistor reliability physics. In 1999, he received the DARPA Most Significant Technological Accomplishment Award for co-developing FinFET. In 2002, he received the IEEE Solid State Circuits Award for the BSIM transistor model. BSIM is a industry standard for IC simulation and is used in the design of most of the products of the IC industry which has a market of over two hundred billion dollars. He has also received UC Berkeley's highest honor for teaching -- the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Hu received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.