The Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems (WINDS) is a week long, 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.
Abstracts are encouraged in (but not limited to) the topics appearing in the adjacent list:
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