| Scope |
Materials with reduced physical dimensions and novel nanoscale structures exhibit unique properties that enable enhanced functionalities and performance. Such advances are essential not only for extending current technologies but also for driving entirely new paradigms. In particular, for information processing—including sensing, computation, and storage—there is a critical demand for materials that can sustain progress beyond Moore’s law. Achieving this requires a fundamental understanding of nanomaterial synthesis and properties, combined with the development of robust integration methods that allow precise control over structure-property relationships and functional performance.
This biannual symposium highlights recent progress in experimental synthesis, characterization, and integration of emerging electronic nanomaterials, with an emphasis on enabling and tailoring new structures and properties. Especially, we will focus on their implications, utilities, and applications for next-generation microelectronics, addressing the pressing need for overcoming imminent performance and energy-efficiency challenges.
Target material systems include two-dimensional (2D) materials (e.g., transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), graphene), one- and zero-dimensional (1D and 0D) nanomaterials (e.g., semiconducting nanowires, quantum dots), organic-inorganic hybrids (e.g., hybrid perovskites, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), hybrid nanocomposites), and quantum materials (e.g., topological insulators, Dirac materials, etc.).
In addition to synthesis, characterization, and integration, the symposium will explore theoretical approaches and functional applications of these materials in optical, electronic, optoelectronic, energy-conversion, and quantum devices.
Finally, perspectives on emerging material research will be discussed, with attention to collaborative opportunities and the establishment of shared infrastructure to accelerate discovery and application.
Provided below are examples of session topics encompassing the above themes:
• Advanced vapor-phase synthesis and processing of low-dimensional nanomaterials (e.g., chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of 2D, 1D, and quantum materials; atomic layer deposition (ALD) and etching (ALE); 2D materials remote epitaxy)
• Emerging hybrid materials synthesis methods (e.g., CVD and ALD of MOFs; vapor-phase & liquid-phase inorganic infiltration in organic materials; new synthetic routes for hybrid perovskites)
• Controlling and engineering defects in low-dimensional materials for novel properties (e.g., defect centers in 2D materials for single photon emission and nanomagnetism)
• Hierarchical integration of nanomaterials (e.g., controlled stacking of 2D materials for twistronics and valleytronics; 2D-0D & 2D-organic hybrids; large-area integration of 1D and 2D devices)
• Characterization and discovery of new properties and functionalities in emerging nanomaterials (e.g., optical, electronic, optoelectronic, energy conversion, and quantum properties, and associated applications)
• Computational modeling of new fundamental properties of emerging nanomaterials
• Implication and applications of the above-noted topics towards advanced-node semiconductor device development and manufacturing (e.g., front and backend of the line (FEOL & BEOL) processes) and new computing architectures (e.g., neuromorphic computing) |