ICSCRM 2011 – Day THREE

After having a standard American Breakfast (Bagel and a Muffin), third day of the conference started off with an important session related to Lucy’s MOS work, with talks on Frequency-Dependent Charge Pumping, Temperature Dependent Hall Mobility in SiC MOSFETs. While she attended the second session on MOS processing and characterisation, I attended the important parallel session on graphene growth and characterisation.

During the session, Kurt invited me to join him for lunch, where i met one of his post-doc’s Luke Nyakiti (XPS and Raman Spectroscopist on graphene).  Had a very crucial and lengthy discussion with him about Raman imaging and analysing graphene layers.

Later in the afternoon, Lucy and I presented Ben’s and HK’s posters, while Nick presented Simon’s. Again, all our posters were very well received, and this time around Ben’s work on SiC Hydrogen gas sensors has attracted much attention from the audience.  So again Lucy was busy exchanging quite a few business cards with them.

Lucy prepares for questions on Ben's poster

Looks like people are still in Lucy’s poster hangover (presented on monday), as one of the researchers (Dr. Ruby Ghosh) from Michigan State University approached her to discuss about her work in detail and wanted to be in touch even after the conference!!

So far, conference has been really great…meeting new people, exploring new ideas and opportunities. Apart from the conference, we are being treated as guests to the city in restaurants and couple of them even offered extra “diet coke” for free :).  Oh Apparently, people in Cleveland like Lucy’s accent and they think she’s Australian!!!!!!

Tomorrow has got the biggest session of whole conference on Graphene Devices, which will be chaired by Kurt….can’t wait to be there!!

Kartheek.

ICSCRM 2011 – Day TWO

Second day of the conference started off with a couple of interesting talks on Graphene. In the first talk, they observed how graphene grown on n-type SiC and p-type SiC effects its I-V characteristics and its corresponding temperature behaviour. The second talk focused on intercalation of Ge atoms between SiC and Graphene layer to achieve ambipolar behaviour in epitaxial graphene.   We attended few more talks after this session on  SiC based BJTs and VJEFETs.

Then we had a very nice Lunch with Kurt, Travis, Ginger (all from NRL), Nick wright, Michael Briere (from international rectifiers inc) and some other guys from Keithley…..most part of our discussion during the lunch was on graphene, crazy american sports and Kurt’s unsuccessful attempts to be in the college American football team during his college days!!

After that i had an important meeting with Kurt about my project and then he introduced me to his big team of researchers. Had a very lengthy intriguing discussion about the graphene growth, and characterisation techniques with them, and some other serious players in graphene research from gremany joined in, which spiced up the whole discussion.

Later in the evening Lucy and I presented posters on Omid’s and Amits research work. Considering the fact that neither of us are experts in the field of DC-DC converters or Diamond,  both posters were decently received by the audience.

After the poster session, we went out for dinner with Raytheon guys and then to ‘Dow Corning’ Blues party. Then returned back to hotel tired. We are still struggling to adjust to the time variation 😦

After a very useful and pleasing day, tomorrow, i’ll be presenting HK’s poster on Noise and Lucy will be presenting Ben’s work on SiC sensors and simon’s SiC solar cells.

Kartheek.

ICSCRM 2011

This starts in earnest this morning, in the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. Three of the team have made the long journey to the conference, carrying ten posters between them. Kartheek has promised to blog from the conference, so hopefully we will be kept up to date with the happenings from out there. For people who are interested in our work, our posters are uploaded here and hopefully the papers will follow once they have been reviewed.

Posters presented on Monday 12th of September 2011

MoP17; MoP21; MoP47; MoP57

Posters presented on Tuesday 13th of September 2011

TuP14; TuP46

Posters presented on Wednesday 14th of September 2011

WeP1; WeP26; WeP39

New beginning

All in all a strange week… ECSCRM 2010 starts tomorrow. Six of us have made the journey out to Sundvolden for the week and hopefully Rupert will be providing a daily commentary on the ups and downs of the conference. The posters were all finished on time (a big thanks to the staff at our print services section). This meant we had the chance of a dry run before we went …