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CALENDAR OFEVENTS
MRS Spring Meeting
We are very keen to help publicise your 1993/94 meeting, exhibition or course etc. so if you want to use MEJ to help with your Call for Papers please fax details ASAP: [44] (0)865 310981. Please let us know in good time - the deadline for our next issue is January 5th.
April 4-8th, at the San Francisco Marriot, SF, CA, USA. The meeting will include: Symposium E on Compound Semiconductor Epitaxy (III-Vs and II-VIs) - (contact: Charles Tu, University o f C a l i f o r n i a , t e l / f a x : [1] (619) 534 4687); Polycrystalline Thin Films; Microwave Processing of Materials; Diamond, SiC and Nitride Widegap Semiconductors; HTSCs and many others. Plus Short Courses and Exhibition.
1994 ISSCC94 The 1994 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference will be held on February 16-18th at the San Francisco Marriot, SF, CA, USA. The 1994 theme is low-power circuit and system techniques that facilitate portability.
Contacts: ISSCC Program Committee Chair, Dennis Monticelli, National Semiconductor, 2900 Semiconduaor Drive, MS D2565, PO Box 58090, Santa Clara, CA 95052 USA. Tel: [1] (408) 721 5605. Conference Operations:Diane Suiters, Courtesy Associates, tel: [1] (202) 639-4255.
EuroMBE VIII The Eighth European MBE Workshop will be held in Spain, in March.
Contacts:for general info, [1] (412) 367 3003 / 4373. For technicalprogram info,JamesE Harper, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, tel~fax: [1] (914) 945 1663 / 4015.
EXMATECH 94 The 2nd Workshop on Expert Evaulation and Control of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Technologies will be held in Parma, Italy, from 18-20th May, 1994. The list of topics includes: new properties and defects of bulk crystals and epilayers; technology-induced m o d i f i c a t i o n s o f e l e c t r i c a l and s t r u c t u r a l characteristics; relationships between defects and device performance; characterization techniques for assessment of materials as well as technological steps.
Contact: Prof F Briones, C N M Madrid, tel~fax: [34] 156-2536 / 141-17651.
Contact: Dr Roberto Fornari, Chairman of Exmatec 94, M A S P E C - C N R Institute, Italy, tel~fax: [39] 521-269 201 / 269206.
IPRM Vl
ALE-3
The Sixth Indium Phosphide and related Materials Conference (IPRM VI) will be held from March 28th to 31st, at Fess Parker's Red Lion Inn Resort, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
The 3rd International Symposium on Atomic Layer Epitaxy and elated Surface Processes (ALE-3) will be held in Sendai,Japan, on 25-27 May, 1994. It will emphasise without being limited to, the following topics: ALE and atomic layer controlled epi, atomic order processing, surface chemistry, characterization, devices. Deadline for abstracts: 24th
Contact for conference or exhibition: Susan Evans, IEEE/LEOS, tel~fax: [1] (908) 562 3896 / 1571.
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