WINDS 2022

Travel Information: Mind the general US regulations as well as Hawaii-specific regulations!

The Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems (WINDS) 2022 will be held on the Island of Kaua'i (Hawaii) at the Royal Sonesta Kaua'i Resort Lihue from December 4 to 9, 2022. WINDS 2022 is an international and interactive workshop designed to explore the fundamental properties of nanoscale devices and applications thereof. The workshop is composed of morning and evening sessions, with afternoons free for ad hoc meetings to encourage extended interaction and discussion among participants.

WINDS provides a forum for material, device, and characterization as well as experimental and modeling researchers to interact. This breadth of expertise reflects the technical challenges in developing nanoscale devices and material systems, since every device is a heterostructure of one form or another and the properties of the interfaces often determine the functionality and properties of the nanoscale system. The WINDS workshop is designed to explore the fundamental properties of such nanoscale heterostructures and potential device applications.

The workshop is the successor of the original WINDS and the International Symposium on Advanced Nanodevices and Nanotechnology (ISANN), which were held on alternate years. WINDS itself began as an outgrowth of the successful Advanced Heterostructures Workshop, which has a long history dating from the 1980s.

Topics

Two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures
Wide-bandgap and emerging semiconductor materials and devices
Emergent interface phenomena: novel 2DEG systems, proximity effects, etc.
Ultra-scaled devices: field-effect transistors, single electron / photon, etc.
Topological states in condensed matter
Quantum materials and devices
Quantum computing and quantum information processing
Spintronics: materials and spin-based phenomena
Neuromorphic computing and neural networks
Bioelectronics: interfaces and sensors
Oxide and multiferroic materials and systems
Light-matter interactions
Plasmonic heterostructures and systems
Energy conversion and harvesting: advanced concepts and systems

Preliminary List of Invited Speakers

Deji Akinwande, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Matthew C. Beard, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Jeffrey Blackburn, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Andrea C. Ferrari, University of Cambridge, UK
Maia Garcia-Vergniory, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Cheng Gong, University of Maryland, USA
Andrew Kent, New York University, USA
Mikito Koshino, Osaka University, Japan
Sadamichi Maekawa, RIKEN, Japan and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Noah Mendelson, University of Chicago, USA
Nicolas Regnault, École Normale Supérieure, France and Princeton University, USA
Hyeon-Suk Shin, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Christoph Strunk, University of Regensburg, Germany
Takehito Suzuki, Toho University, Japan
Thirumalai Venkatesan, University of Oklahoma, USA

Special Sessions

2D Materials

Organizers:
Berend T. Jonker, Naval Research Lab, USA
Alexander Balandin, University California Riverside, USA
Deep Jariwala, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Topological Materials

Organizer:
Matthew Gilbert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Important Dates