39th IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference
The Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA
December 11-13, 2008

The SISC Ed Nicollian Award for best student paper was established in 1995 in honor of Professor E.H. Nicollian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Professor Nicollian was a pioneer in the exploration of the metal-oxide-semiconductor system, particularly in the area of electrical measurements. His efforts were fundamental to establishing the SISC in its early years, and he served as its technical program chair in 1982. With John Brews, he wrote the definitive book, "MOS Physics and Technology", published by Wiley Interscience.

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Past Winners of the SISC Ed Nicollian Award

2007
Stanislav Markov
University of Glasgow
“Band-gap and permittivity change at high-k gate stack interfaces — device perspective”
with S. Roy, C. Fiegna, E. Sangiorgi, and A. Asenov
2006
Laurent Thevenod
CEA-LETI/MINATEC
“Characterization of TiN/HfO2/SiO2 MOSFETs by extracting mobility from magnetoresistance measurements”
with M. Cassé, W. Desrat, M. Mouis, G. Reimbold, and F. Boulanger
2005
Frank C. Yeh
Yale University
“SONOS-type Non-volatile Memory with All Silicon Nitride Dielectric Stack”
with Y. X. Liu, X. W. Wang, and T.P. Ma
2004
Miaomiao Wang
Yale University
“Tunneling Spectroscopy Study of Traps in MOS Structures with High-k Gate Dielectrics”
with W. He and T.P. Ma
2003
Mike J. Hale
UCSD
“Oxygen and Oxide Bonding on GaAs(001)- c(2x8)/(2x4): An Atomic Understanding of Fermi Level Pinning and Unpinning”
with J. Z. Sexton, S. I. Yi, D. L. Winn,
M. Passlack (Motorola), and A. C. Kummel
2002
Wenjuan Zhu
Yale University
“Mobility extraction for MOSFET's made with ultra-thin high-k dielectrics: correct accounting of channel carriers”
with T.P. Ma, T. Tamagawa and W.Y. Wang
2001
Thomas Kauerauf
IMEC
“Low Weibull slope of breakdown distributions in high-k layers”
with Robin Degraeve, Charlotte Soens, Guido Groeseneken (IMEC), Eduard Cartier (IBM/IMEC)
2000
Z. J. Luo
Yale University
“Characterization of Ultra-thin (~1nm) Zr Silicate for CMOS Gate Application”
with T.P. Ma, E. Cartier, M. Copel, T. Tamagawa and B. Halpern
1999
Shigayasu Uno
Osaka University
“I-V Characteristics of Ultra Thin Oxide Films after Soft Breakdown”
with T. Sakura, Y. Kamakura and K. Taniguchi
1998
M. K. Das
Purdue University
“Inversion Channel Mobility in 4H- and 6H-SiC MOSFETs”
with J.A. Cooper, Jr., M.R. Melloch,
and M.A. Capano
1997
Tanya Nigam
IMEC
“Is the Constant Current Charge-to- Breakdown Test Still a Valid Tool to Study the Reliability of MOS Structures?”
with R. Degraeve, G. Groeseneken, M. Heyns
1996
Jan De Blauwe
IMEC
“Degradation and Nitridation Dependence of Steady-State SILC”
with R. Degraeve, R. Bellens, J. Van Houdt, G. Groesenenken and H.E. Maes
1995
K. A. Ellis
Cornell University
“Gas Phase Chemistry of N2O Furnace Oxidation”
with R.A. Buhrman