Joint Conference ofGCIM 2024 & IUMRS-ICYRAM 2024
& MRS-K SPRING MEETING

This symposium focuses on materials, characterization, processing, and devices for emissive, non-emissive displays and optoelectronic devices. This symposium includes materials, semiconductor physics, frontplane technology, and devices such as halide perovskite LEDs, OLEDs, quantum dot QD-LEDs, micro-LEDs, AR/VR technologies for display application. Topics include electronic and optoelectronic devices, functional emitters, and semiconductor, insulator, conducting materials for frontier display and optoelectronic applications. This symposium addresses the recent research on theory, processing, synthesis, characterization, patterning, device fabrication in display and optoelectronic technologies.

Smart sensor is one of the most important electronic components that will lead the 4th industrial revolution era represented by smart factory, IoT, big data, and AI technologies, and it is one of the most active research fields in recent years along with the innovative developments of functional nanomaterials and nanostructures, integrated sensor devices, and IT convergence technologies. This symposium provides a platform for scientists and engineers working in the field to share their latest research findings and engage in discussions on exciting topics as follows.

This symposium focuses on semiconductor materials, processes and devices for unconventional electronics including bio-integrated devices, energy devices, wearable and implantable electronics etc. Recent advances in this area including materials, processing devices, integrated systems and their biomedical applications that are capable of conformal and seamless contacts with human body. The unconventional approach of building electronic system opens a new pathway for improving diagnosis and therapeutic effects. Unconventional electronics in biomedical fields expands a major research field in diverse domains from basic science, and engineering to computer science for practical applications. The topical list for the symposium reflects these needs with the increased emphasis on the fabrications of devices based on various materials including new device architectures for providing unprecedent treatments in biomedical field and society.

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers working on diverse areas related to low-dimensional (low-DM) and 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials, so as to promote crossbreeding of ideas. Recently, graphene and related 2D vdW materials offer great prospects of unprecedented advances in device performance at the atomistic level, and synergistic 2D device integration with Si CMOS platforms will ensure a massive impact as classical scaling fades away. However, a number of challenges regarding material, device, and integration requirements remain for its practical applications and there are plenty of scopes to improve. Therefore, the topics of this symposium include synthesis and processing, fundamental and novel quantum properties, physical/electrical/chemical device applications, and readiness for industry. The symposium aims to provide a platform for dissemination of the latest research results and for discussion of the future directions in the field.

Mechanical properties of structural materials for a variety of engineering applications require the use of microstructural engineering at varying length scales. Structural materials with various metal, ceramic, and composite are receiving much attention as up-to-date in achieving improved mechanical properties in material systems. In addition, nanoscale metals are known to have excellent strength due to their unique deformation mechanisms, and there are efforts in utilizing the nanoscale metals in 3D hierarchical structures. The aim of this symposium is to cover recent advances in fabrication method, advanced microstructural characterization, mechanical properties analysis, and modeling of structural materials with the focus of understanding the effect of different microstructural engineering at varying length scales.

Computational approaches in materials science are now becoming a mediatorial process in rational materials design. This symposium introduces the most up-to-date advances and achievements in relevant computational studies on materials over various sizes and time scales, including first-principle calculations, molecular simulations, phase-field simulations, finite-element methods, etc. This symposium welcomes combinatorial studies of theory and experiments and encourages the participation of experimentalists in the relevant fields. This symposium also covers data- and AI-based studies of materials properties and AI-driven materials design, and conventional computational materials studies.

Today, rapid progress in advanced materials imaging techniques, including electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, and X-ray microscopy, is driving the characterization, comprehension, and enhancement of functional materials and next-generation devices. At GCIM 2024, our symposium zooms in on how these experimental techniques are applied within two research domains: rechargeable batteries and neuromorphic and semiconductor devices. Our goal is to convene scientists proficient in applying characterization techniques to rechargeable batteries, neuromorphic systems, and semiconductor devices, fostering an exchange of knowledge on these specific themes. We anticipate strong participation from academia and industry, drawn by the interdisciplinary nature of the symposium within the GCIM community. While our emphasis lies on these themes at GCIM 2024, we welcome submissions exploring the application of characterization techniques to other functional materials and devices.

This symposium mainly focuses on semiconductor materials, processing, and devices for the emerging memory and logic semiconductor applications. In response to ever-growing semiconductor market advancing toward higher density and better performance, alternative materials, device structure, advanced semiconductor process, and system are becoming increasingly more important for the extremely scaled semiconductor integration. This symposium aims to bring together a broad community of researchers from a variety of fields including materials science, surface science, inorganic/organic chemistry, and electrical engineering to exchange the latest research results and to create a new frontier for semiconductor material, processing, and device researchers. Accordingly, the topical list for this symposium reflects atomic scale thin film deposition and etching, emerging materials process, surface chemistry and analysis, low power and high-performance device structure, 3D integration, advanced packaging technologies for emerging memory and logic device application.

Biomaterials are natural or synthetic materials that have been designed and used in biomedical applications for maintenance, treatment, and replacement of biological functions. In this regard, advances in biomimetic materials and their bio-fabrications could promote a paradigm shift in the healthcare system toward the success of personalized monitoring/sensing/medicine/implant. This symposium will be on recent advances in the area of biomaterials and their bio-fabrication for biosensor and bioelectronics, drug delivery, organs-on-a-chip, bioprinting, tissue engineering, and dental/bone implant applications for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. Up-to-date advances and results in biomimetic materials and biomedical engineering will be presented and discussed by invited speakers who are experts in each field to potentially provide valuable insights into next generation technologies for future healthcare applications. Furthermore, translational approaches for taking these advanced biomaterials-based engineered strategies from ‘Bench to Bedside’ will also be considered during the symposium.

This symposium will cover recent research and innovative ideas on energy harvesting materials, devices, and systems for self-powered electronics. With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution era, the Internet of things (IoT) and wearable electronics have received significant attention. However, the biggest obstacle to the expansion and universalization of these devices is not being free from electronic power. Energy harvesting technology utilized wasted ambient energy in form of vibration, heat, electromagnetic waves, etc. can provide a feasible solution to this problem. Energy harvesting technology requires comprehensive research involving high-performance electric energy conversion materials, efficient device design, energy management circuits, and low power consumption electrics. The topical list for this symposium reflects these needs with the state-of-the-art technologies, recent topics, and major challenges, as well as the future prospects for energy harvesting technology.

Materials development for environmental science are necessary to solve global environmental issues such as climate changes caused by global warming, biodiversity loss, water/air pollution and so on. This symposium aims to bring together the researchers working in the area of materials for carbon neutralization, pollution prevention, waste treatment, resource recovery and environmental health. This symposium will explore advanced materials for adsorbents, membranes, electrodes and catalysts.

This symposium aims to bring together up-to-date views of past and current developments in the field, with a particular focus on the most recent theoretical and experimental discoveries concerning topics such as novel materials, device structures, and fabrication techniques for next-generation solar cells. The symposium covers the main aspects of the fundamental science of materials and devices that are paving the road toward highly efficient and stable solar cells as well as recent advances in improving photovoltaic performance based on various materials.

This symposium focuses on photochemical, electrochemical, and thermochemical reactions for efficient water splitting, CO2 reduction, and high-end chemical production regarding the generation of hydrogen, ammonia, and high-value products. This session will bring a broad spectrum of the community together to discuss the latest advances in energy conversion and storage research utilizing electric, thermal, and photonic energies. The main concerns are involved with materials and process developments. Also, insights on interfacial characterizations, production systems, and theoretical and computational phenomena will be covered.