FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

PLENARY SESSIONS
 

Plenary Speakers:
"Research and Development Strategy for Creation of Corporate Value"
T. Ikoma (Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan)
"The Role and Strategy of IMEC as a European Player in a Globalized Research Era" (tentative)
G.J. Declerck (IMEC, Belgium)
"Progress and Perspective of Nanostructure Devices for Ubiquitous Information Network"
Y. Arakawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
  The conference aims at providing a forum for synergistic interactions among research scientists and engineers working in the fields related to solid state devices and materials and encouraging to discuss problems to be solved in these fields, new findings and new phenomena and state-of-the-art technologies related to devices and materials. The conference also aims to facilitate the mutual understanding among people in the fields of devices and material and those in the fields of circuit, system and packaging. For the 2003 conference, fourteen program subcommittees have been organized in order to bring higher quality paper selection and strengthening into specific technology areas. The scope of each subcommittee is listed below.