WINDS 2024

The Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems (WINDS) 2024 will be held on the Island of Hawaii at the Fairmont Orchid from December 1 to 6, 2024. WINDS is an international and interactive workshop designed to explore the fundamental properties of nanoscale heterostructures and potential device applications. 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 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

2D and 1D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
Wide-bandgap and emerging semiconductor materials and devices
Emergent interface phenomena: novel 2DEG systems, proximity effects, etc.
Beyond CMOS technology: materials and ultra-scaled devices
Quantum science: topology, chirality, computation, and sensing
Spintronics: materials and spin-based phenomena
AI, machine learning, neuromorphic computing and neural networks
Bioelectronics: interfaces and sensors
Oxide and multiferroic materials and systems
Nanophotonic materials and devices
Energy conversion and harvesting: advanced concepts and systems
Low-dimensional materials and heterostructures for nanoelectronics

Conference Chairs

General Chair: Akira Oiwa, Osaka University, Japan
Europe Co-Chair: Stuart Parkin, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany
Japan Co-Chair: Taichi Otsuji Tohoku University, Japan
US Co-Chair: Alexander Balandin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Communications Chair: Fariborz Kargar, Auburn University, USA
Local Arrangements Chair: Stephen Goodnick, Arizona State University, USA

Special Sessions

2D and 1D materials

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

Quantum science

Organizers:
Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo, USA
Matthew Gilbert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Stuart Parkin, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany

Important Dates