IMST 2009 Memory Tutorials and FP6/7 Memory Workshop

The IMST2009 will be held in Aachen, Germany from September 8th to 9th 2009.

The conference will take place at the Super C building, which is at Templergraben 57 right next to the main building of the RWTH Aachen University.

The conference will be preceded by EPCOS2009 which will be held from September 6th to 8th at the same location.

Recommended Hotels for EPCOS and IMST are:

·  Hotel Mercure am Dom

·  Hotel Am Marschiertor

·  Aquis Grana

Full details can be found on the EPCOS website (www.epcos.org) and/or the IMST website (www.imst.org)

Note that budget accommodation is available in an RWTH Guest House (<50 euro) if desired. To book this please contact the local organiser directly ().

Note also that invited speakers for the FP6/7 workshop will NOT be charged a conference fee but should still register as soon as possible at http://ia.physik.rwth-aachen.de/imst/subscription.php

Technical Programme

September 8th - Tutorials on memory technology and devices - Session 1

IMST Registration and Coffee

15:00 15:45

Opening of IMST2009

15:00 15:15 Prof. Waser RWTH Aachen Welcome speech

Tutorials on Phase change materials and devices

The leading international speakers below will cover important aspects of phase-change materials and their use in optical and electrical memories

Dr N Yamada, Panasonic, Japan

Prof A Lacaita, Politecnico Milano, Italy

Dr M Salinga, RWTH-Aachen, Germany

Tutorial 1 15:15 16:00 Prof. Lacaita Politecnico Milano, Italy

Tutorial 2 16:00 16:45 Dr. Yamada Panasonic, Japan

Tutorial 3 16:45 17:30 Dr. Salinga RWTH Aachen, Germany

Conference Dinner

18:30 Open to all registered delegates

The tutorial sessions continue with an insight into the increasingly important field of oxide memories, with talks from the following international experts in the field

Tutorial 5 8:30 9:15 Dr. Rozenberg, University Paris Sud

Tutorial 6 9:15 10:00 Dr. Wouters IMEC, Belgium

September 9th - 10.00 to 17.00 - FP6/7 Workshop

10.00 -10.15 - Welcome (M Wuttig and C D Wright) and Coffee

SESSION 1 - FP6 PROJECTS

10.15 - 10.45 - Emerging Materials for Mass-storage Architectures (EMMA),

Dr Dirk Wouters, IMEC Leuven, Belgium

10.45 - 11.15 - Vertically Stacked memory cells based on heterojunctions made of organic-inorganic materials (VERSATILE), Dr Grazia Tallarida, MDM-INFM, Italy

11.15 - 11.45 - Magnetic Films on Nanospheres (MAFIN),

Prof. Dr. Manfred Albrecht, University of Chemnitz Germany

11.45 - 12.15 - Performance advances in recording through micro actuation (PARMA),

Dr C Ruffert, University of Hannover

12.15 - 12.45 Probe-based Terabit Memory (ProTeM ),

Prof. C D Wright, University of Exeter

12.45 - 14.00 lunch

SESSION 2 - FP7 PROJECTS

14.00 - 14.30 - Terabit Magnetic Storage Technologies (TERAMAGSTOR),

Prof Dimitris Niarchos, NCSR Athens, Greece

14.30 - 15.00 - Giga-scale oriented solid state flash memory for Europe (GOSSAMER),

Dr Paolo Tessariol, Numonyx, Agrate, Italy

15.00 - 15.30 - Super-resolution photonics for advanced storage systems (SURPASS),

Dr Christophe Frey, Deutsche Thomson, Germany

15.30 - 15.50 Coffee

15.50 -16.20 - Printable memory solutions for sensor, ID, and media applications (PRIMEBITS)

Dr Ari Alastalo, VTT Finland

16.20 - 16.50 Automotive tested high-voltage embedded non-volatile memory integrated SoC (ATHENIS), Dr Ewald.Wachmann, Austrian Microsystems and Dr Cor Schepens, Cavendish Kinetics

16.50 - 17.00 Closing remarks (M Wuttig and C D Wright)