Division: Electronic Materials and Photonics (EM)

The Electronics Materials and Photonics Division (EMPD) is soliciting abstracts that will address the latest advancements in a wide variety of materials and devices for quantum information systems, computing, and memory, as well as energy conversion, storage, and harvesting. Abstracts that report experimental and theoretical discoveries underpinning the structure-property-synthesis correlations of new materials and their integration into devices are welcome. For AVS 71, EMPD is particularly seeking abstracts that fall under several broad thematic areas: 1) Emerging Frontiers in Quantum Materials and Devices will highlight the materials and process challenges as applied to quantum and advanced computing and sensing applications. 2) Emerging Memories will highlight materials and integration of novel memory devices, including ferroelectrics, resistive-RAM, spin tunneling-RAM, and magnetoresistive-RAM. 3) Advances in Wide Bandgap and Ultra-Wide Bandgap Ga₂O₃ Materials and Devices will concentrate on semiconductors used in extreme environments, such as those with high or low temperatures, ionizing radiation, or energetic particles, high-power and RF electronics, deep-UV optoelectronics, and quantum electronics. 4) Advances in Materials and Processes for Devices and Interconnects (FEOL and BEOL) will focus on manufacturing aspects of semiconductor materials, processes, and integration, as applied to low-power logic, memory, and high-to-ultrahigh wide bandgap devices. 5) Evolution of Materials for Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Conversion will focus on advanced materials and novel structural and engineering strategies that exploit alternative energy sources. Energy materials include dielectric materials for energy storage, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitors. Other energy-related functional materials and devices are welcome. 6) Materials and Devices for Advanced Photonics and Plasmonics will highlight materials and process challenges of electronic and photonic devices that exploit plasmonics, metamaterials, and metasurfaces as platforms for enhanced light-matter interaction. Lastly, 7) A joint session on the use of AI and Machine Learning within the Semiconducting Industry will be organized in conjunction with the AI and Machine Learning Symposium.

A Flash Poster session is being organized to encourage poster presenters to showcase their work as part of the oral sessions.

As in past years, we will offer multiple awards, including a graduate student poster and presentation awards, as well as post-doc and graduate student travel awards, to help create a forum in which younger scientists can present their work and develop relationships for the future.

EM1+AP+CPS+MS+PS+QS+SM+TF-TuM: Emerging Frontiers in Quantum Materials and Devices

• Kirstin Alberi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Controlling the Properties of Epitaxially Grown Topological Semimetals”
• Daniel Stick, Sandia National Laboratories, “Optical Integration for Trapped-Ion Systems”

EM2+AP+QS+TF-TuM: Evolution of Materials and Devices for Energy Harvesting and Conversion

• Lars Grabow, University of Houston, “Modelling the Surface Electronic Properties of Catalytic Condenser for Programmable Reactions”

EM1+CPS+MS+PS+SM+TF-TuA: Advances in Materials and Processes for Devices and Interconnects (FEOL and BEOL)

EM2+AIML+AP+CPS+MS+SM-TuA: Advances in AI and Machine Learning within the Semiconducting Industry

EM1+AP+CA+CPS+MS+TF-WeM: Advances in Wide Bandgap Materials and Devices

• John Muth, North Carolina State University, “Progress in Wide and Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductors – Energy Implications”

EM1+AP+CPS+MS+PS+SM+TF-WeA: Materials and Devices in Emerging Memories

EM2+AP+NS+TF-WeA: Advances in Materials and Devices for Energy Storage

EM2+CA+CPS+MS+SE+TF-WeM: Processing Ultra-Wide Band Gap Ga₂O₃

• Lisa Porter, Carnegie Mellon University, “Ga₂O₃ Polymorphs: Epitaxial Film Growth, Characterization and Contacts”

EM3+TF-WeA: Materials and Devices for Advanced Photonics and Plasmonics

EM-ThP: Electronic Materials and Photonics Poster Session