Therminic 2001, Call for Papers

7th International Workshop on
THERMAL INVESTIGATIONS of ICs and SYSTEMS
September 24-27, 2001, Paris, France.

Sponsored by		In cooperation with
	IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.	Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society

General Chair
B. Courtois
TIMA Grenoble,
France

Vice General Chair
M. Rencz
BUTE Budapest,
Hungary

Programme Chairs
C. Lasance
Philips,
The Netherlands
V. Székely
BUTE Budapest,
Hungary

Programme Committee
M. Baelmans
KUL/Belgium
A. Bar-Cohen
U. of Minnesota/USA
W. Claeys
U. Bordeaux/France
I. Barsony
KFKI-ATKI/Hungary
D. Blackburn
NIST Gaithersburg/USA
K. Azar
Lucent Technologies/USA
G. De Mey
U. Gent/Belgium
E. Suhir
Bell Laboratories/USA
E. Jones
US Air Force/USA
Y. Zorian
LogicVision/USA
A. Tay
NU Singapore/Singapore
U. Dillner
IPHT/Germany
J.M. Dorkel,
LAAS/France
A. Rubio
UPC/Spain
B. Siegal
Thermal Eng. Ass./USA
J. Parry
Flomerics/UK
M. Kimura
U. Tohoku/Japan
J. Rantala
Nokia/Finland
Y. Joshi
U. of Maryland/USA
N. Sabry
U. Mansoura/Egypt
J.B. Saulnier
ENSMA/France
H. Pape
Infineon Technologies/Germany
A. Napieralski
TU Lodz/Poland
D. De Cogan
U. of East Anglia/UK
H. Jaouen
STMicroelectronics/France
K. Chakrabarty
Duke U./USA
J. Samitier
U. Barcelona/Spain
D. Copeland
Showa Aluminum/Japan
P. Tadayon
Intel/USA
K. Shenai
U. of Illinois/USA
M. Iyer
IME/Singapore
F. Christiaens
Alcatel Bell/Belgium
J. Janssen
Philips/The Netherlands
G. Digele
The Boston Cltg/Germany
E. Driessens
IMEC/Belgium
B. Guenin
AMKOR/USA
P. Raad
Southern Methodist U./USA
T. Tarter
Lightwave Microsystems/USA
O. Slattery
NMRC/Ireland
D. Agonafer
IBM Corp./USA

Call for Papers
THERMINIC Workshops are a series of events to discuss the essential thermal questions of microelectronic microstructures and electronic parts in general. These questions are becoming more and more crucial with the increasing element density of deep submicron downscaling of integrated circuits necessitating thermal simulation, monitoring and cooling. Thermal management is expected to become an increasingly dominating factor of a system's cost. The high element density of MCMs, the growing power dissipated in a package, etc., and the mobile parts of microsystems raise new thermal problems to be solved in the near future necessitating the regular discussion of the experts in these fields. Finally, there is an increasing need for accurate assessment of the boundary conditions used in the analysis of electronic parts, which requires a concurrent solution of the thermal behaviour of the whole system.
The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council and TIMA Laboratory in cooperation with the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society and with the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society French Chapter.

Areas of interest:
The areas of interest range from thermal investigations in microstructures to thermal management of electronic systems.
Thermal and Temperature Sensors
Thermal Simulation
Electro-thermal Simulation
Thermal Modelling and Investigation of Packages
Reliability Issues
High Temperature Electronics
Heat Transfer Education
Flow Visualisation Techniques
Turbulence Modelling in Complex Geometrics
Thermal Characterization
Measurement of Thermal Properties
Acquisition and Analysis of Thermal Data
Temperature Mapping
Novel and Advanced Cooling Techniques
Thermal Performance of Interconnects
Heat Transfer Enhancement
Validation of Thermal Software
Coupled (thermo-mechanical, thermo-optical, etc.) Effects.

Technical Programme:
The programme will include oral talks, poster presentation, a panel discussion and invited talks given by prominent speakers.

Vendor and book exhibition:
The THERMINIC Workshop invites vendors offering products in the scope of the Workshop to exhibit. Editors are invited to exhibit books.

Invited talk:
A prominent speaker has accepted to give an invited talk:
K. Shenai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, "Chip and package-level thermal management of power modules for field reliability of power systems".
In the information age, reliability of power systems used in the information processing equipment is of paramount importance. Demands for 99.9999999% reliable operation in the field is not uncommon. This talk will address some fundamental issues on silicon-level and package related thermal management of power modules used in computer/telecommunication power supplies. We will develop a new understanding of the thermal management and highlight the importance of advanced thermal models to accurately predict the long-term reliability of power systems.

Special Issue of Journals:
Special Issues and special sections of leading periodicals have been organised regarding the previous Workshops (Journal of Sensors and Actuators, Microelectronics Journal, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Journal of Electronic Packaging). It is again expected to have special issues and special sections of leading periodicals as follow up of the Workshop 2001.

Professional Development Courses/Tutorials:
A Tutorial will be offered on Monday 24 September, prior to the Workshop on "Limits of Air Cooling" and on "Thermal Management for non-Mechanical Engineers". Details will be published in the Programme booklet.
K. Azar, Lucent Technologies, USA.

Venue:
The Workshop will be held at the Sofitel Paris Forum Rive Gauche Hotel, located on the left bank of the Seine, only a few minutes from Montparnasse, the Latin Quarter, Place Denfert-Rochereau, Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie. The Sofitel Paris Forum Rive Gauche Hotel is very easy to get to, by private and public transport. More information is available on the hotel and on Paris.

Information for the authors:
Authors are invited to submit electronic papers describing recent work. Panel proposals are also invited. Papers may be extended summaries (minimum 500 words) or full papers although preference will be given to full paper submissions. In either case, clearly describe the nature of the work, explain its significance, highlight novel features, and describe its current status.
Please include title, name and affiliations of all authors, an abstract of 50 words or less and suggested topics. Also identify a contact author and include a complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and E-mail address.
Only electronic submissions are accepted. The papers should be prepared in Postscript, text, Microsoft Word or PDF format and should be submitted to the THERMINIC email.
Accepted contributions will be included in Workshop Proceedings.

Submission deadline: 20 April 2001

Notification of acceptance: 08 June 2001

Submission of manuscripts for distribution at the Workshop: 31 August 2001

Submit all paper proposals and/or intentions to participate to:

Bernard COURTOIS
TIMA / THERMINIC Workshop
46 Avenue Félix Viallet
38031 Grenoble cedex
France

E-mail : Therm2001@imag.fr