European researchers play a major role in the worldwide effort to understand the defects in silicon and many other semiconductors. To maintain this position and to maximise efficiency, researchers based in Europe must come together and unify their efforts.
CADRES will bring together researchers based in Europe, who are working with state-of-the-art assessment and modelling techniques on defects in silicon-based semiconductors. Through this Coordination Action, new discussion forums will be created, leading to a high exploitation of results from fundamental materials studies. It will set up a research community with a world leading collection of assessment techniques and theoretical modelling tools.
This community will be used as a vehicle to forge new collaborations with the semiconductor industry. This will be achieved by holding tightly focussed meetings and conferences, open to all interested parties.
For the first time, there will be a route for materials scientists and device or processing engineers to have a common focal point in Europe.
CADRES will consist of highly specialised Expert Groups in areas which are considered to be crucial within the field of defect analysis. Allowing a group of researchers with state-of-the-art assessment techniques, to concentrate on pre-selected critical topics will result in increased knowledge and efficiency. Click here for a structural overview of participants' roles within CADRES.
Conference proceedings
Evidence of new industrial/academic collaborations
This Coordination Action will have a constructive impact on:
the collaborative efforts between members of CADRES
the way that members of CADRES can place their work into a technological arena
interactions and discussions between those working directly in development of silicon-based devices and those working on studies of materials properties, in the same semiconductors.
This Coordination Action fulfils a key objective of the IST strategy, namely that of ensuring European leadership in the generic and applied technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy. The grouping of researchers into Expert Groups will reinforce European strengths in areas where technology leadership has been established. Furthermore, a significant feature of IST strategic objectives is the promotion of an integrated approach. The bringing together of researchers in this field means that the infrastructure will be in place in Europe to continue to effectively address this topic when we eventually see the dawning of the <65nm era, post-2007, as defined in the ITRS.