Some of the participants at the first ISCGC-2017.
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The 1st International Semiconductor Conference for Global Challenges (ISCGC 2017) was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, July 16-19, 2017. The conference was jointly sponsored by The Electrochemical Society and the Chinese Physical Society.
The 200-plus attendees from around the world addressed the global challenges of semiconductor science and technology. The conference covered a wide spectrum of semiconductor research areas including growth and characterization, electronic/optoelectronic/power devices and their applications, and energy devices and systems.
On hand were eight keynote and 40 invited speakers. Thirty-seven contributing papers were presented, along with 66 posters. The meeting included 10 invited and keynote speakers from ECS as well as the involvement of five ECS divisions (Electronics and Photonics, Dielectric Science and Technology, Luminescence and Display Materials, Sensors, and Nanocarbons).
“ECS wants to have an influence in this region of the world as to the way scholarly publishing is carried out,” says Roque Calvo, executive director of ECS. “We want to communicate the idea of our Free the Science initiative — embracing open science to further advance research in our fields.”
Yue Kuo, senior vice president for ECS and Dow Professor at Texas A&M University giving the welcoming remarks at ISCGC-2017.
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Helping connect ECS and the Chinese Physical Society were Yue Kuo and Kaiyo Wang. Kuo is senior vice president for ECS and Dow Professor at Texas A&M University. Wang is the deputy director of SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences and secretary general of the Chinese Physical Society, Semiconductor Division.
In June of 2016, Kuo traveled to Peking to meet with Wang and the Chinese Physical Society. They worked out a technical sponsorship for the PRiME 2016 meeting (a joint meeting between ECS, The Electrochemical Society of Japan, and The Korean Electrochemical Society) taking place in the fall of 2016 in Hawaii. With the success of that partnership, it was decided to create this new meeting in China, ISCGC 2017, to be held just nine months later.
“China is the emerging semiconductor powerhouse,” says Kuo. “With ECS’s long history of publishing peer-reviewed semiconductor research, it’s natural we wanted to work with them.”
Kuo and Wang both say the meeting fostered a friendly atmosphere where junior and senior scientists and engineers actively discussed and exchanged the latest outcome and new ideas in semiconductor science and technology.
This conference was the first in a series planned for every two years. The date for 2019 will be announced shortly.
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