IEEE Solid-States Circuits Magazine - Spring 2023 - 101

CNRS, AMPERE, Lyon, France), and
M. Zielinski
■ " Silver Sintering as Die-Attach Material
for High Temperature Sensors, "
by E. Solà [Institute of Microelectronics
of Barcelona-National
Microelectronics Center (IMB-CNM),
Spanish National Research Council
(CSIC), Barcelona, Spain], N. Fusté
(IMB-CNM, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain),
O. Aviñó (IMB-CNM, CSIC, Barcelona,
Spain), M. Vellvehi (IMB-CNM,
CSIC, Barcelona, Spain), D. Sánchez
(IMB-CNM, CSIC, Barcelona,
Spain), X. Perpiñà (IMB-CNM, CSIC,
Spain), G. Brezeanu (Univerity Poplitehnica,
Bucharest, Romania), F.
Draghici (Univerity Poplitehnica,
Bucharest, Romania), and X. Jordà
(IMB-CNM, CSIC, Spain)
■ " Comparison of Three Bandgap Topologies
Implemented in Standard
CMOS Technology with Parasitic
pnp Bipolars, " by E. Gheorghit‚aˇ
(Technical University of ClujNapoca,
Romania), R. Onet‚ ( Technical
University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania),
and I. Câmpanu (Infineon AG, ClujNapoca,
Romania)
■ " Surface Functionalization of Graphitized
Porous Silicon with Cobalt
Hexacyanoferrate Nanocubes for
Hybrid Electrode in High-Performance
Supercapacitors, " by
M. C. Stoian [Institutul Nat‚ ional
de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru
Microtehnologie (IMT), Bucharest,
Romania and Faculty of Chemistry,
University of Bucharest, Romania],
I.-N.Bratosin (IMT, Bucharest,
Romania, and Faculty of Physics,
University of Bucharest, Romania),
C. Romanitan (IMT, Bucharest, Romania),
G. Craciun (IMT, Bucharest,
Romania), N. Djourelov (Extreme
Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics,
" Horia Hulubei " National R&D
Institute for Physics and Nuclear
Engineering, Mägurele Romania),
M. Kusko (IMT, Bucharest, Romania),
and A. Radoi (IMT, Bucharest,
Romania)
■ " Silicon Nanowires: Antimicrobial
Surface or Molecular Delivery
Medium?, " by L. Gogianu, M. Popescu,
and M. Simion (IMT Bucharest,
Romania)
-Alin Grama
Secretary, SSCS Romania Chapter
I
Summary of Activities of San Diego Chapter
In 2022, the San Diego SSCS Chapter
hosted four online webinars and
two in-person seminars. The former
drew a total attendance of more than
200, while the latter was about 20.
We started the year on 10 January
with James C. Rautio, founder
and board chair of Sonnet Software,
in Syracuse, New York. Rautio
presented " Maxwell's Theory for
Us Regular Folks. " Rautio aimed to
have a presentation giving a physical
understanding of Maxwell's theory,
with no equations at all. With
a few simple animations (intended
to inform rather than impress)
and interspersed with bits of " dad "
humor, Raut io explained Maxwell's
theory with a precious view
through a window into the incredibly
amazing and beautiful universe
of Maxwell's theory. Rautio
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went gradually from basic concepts
to intuition to how Maxwell
converted intuition into equations,
going through concepts of electromagnetic
waves, and ending with
an avenue to quantum electrodynamics,
which were introduced by
Richard Feynman.
On 11 March, Dr. Sudip Shekhar,
from the University of British
Columbia in Canada, presented
" Silicon: The Playground
for Photons and Electrons. "
Shekhar discussed silicon
photonics from the ground
up. The talk started with
complementary metaloxide
semiconductor
(CMOS) processes and
how it is possible to
incorporate photonic
devices. Shekhar discussed
where the light is guided in
a silicon waveguide on a CMOS semiconductor
on insulator process, and
Diving deep into
the different
elements of
introduction to
the topic, with
good intuition and
understanding
of what the light
options are.
what a significant impact silicon
photonics have in the field of highspeed
transceivers for data communications.
Which applications will
become mainstream in the next 5 to
10 years? Sensing? Computing? Radio
frequency (RF) and microwave?
Quantum? What will be next in communications?
And how can we easily
add photonics to
the arsenal of the
CMOS designer and
make its adopt ion
photonics, the talk
was an excellent
seamless? Shekhar
highlighted the opportunities
that lie ahead
for a CMOS designer in
adopting this technology,
now ready to be deployed.
Diving deep into
the different elements of
photonics, the talk was an
excellent introduction to the topic,
with good intuition and understanding
of what the light options are.
IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE
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