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TUESDAY July 9, 2013
SCV Nanotechnology Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Jiye Lee, Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular Foundry, LBNL
Time: Registration & pizza at 11:30 AM; Presentations at 12:00 PM Noon
Cost: IEEE Members: $5, Non-members: $10
Place: Texas Instruments (TI) Auditorium E-1, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
Web: sites.ieee.org/sfbanano

Conventional solar cells generate one electron for each absorbed photon.  Any excess photon energy above the bandgap is wasted as heat.  This fundamental energy loss imposes the Shockley-Queisser limit of 34% for single optimized semiconductor junction.  Singlet (more…)

TUESDAY July 2, 2013
SCV Photonics Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Gordon Wetzstein, MIT Media Lab
Time: Networking/Light Dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Intel Building SC-12, 3600 Juliette Lane, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

With the invention of integral imaging and parallax barriers in the beginning of the 20th century, glasses-free 3D displays have become feasible.  Only today -more than a century later – glasses-free 3D displays are finally emerging in the consumer (more…)

TUESDAY June 25, 2013
SCV Consumer Electronics Chapter
Speaker: Amit Gulati, Dolby
Time: Networking and pizza at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM.
Cost: none for IEEE members; $10 for non-members
Place: Microsoft Silicon Valley, 1085 La Avenida St., Mountain View
RSVP: from website
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ce

What will it take for glasses-free 3D to become the pervasive viewing method for your video entertainment?  How does one ensure that a vast ecosystem of service providers and devices can equally render a compelling and comfortable viewing experience free of restrictions in (more…)

TUESDAY June 18, 2013
SCV Nanotechnology Chapter
Speaker: Prof. Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Time: Networking, Pizza & drinks at Noon, with presentation following
Cost: IEEE Members: $5, Non-members: $10
Place: TI Auditorium E-1, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
Web: sites.ieee.org/sfbanano

Designing solid-state devices is essentially restricted by choosing available chemical elements found on the Periodic Table and forming various stable solids made of these chemical elements. A key to developing novel solid-state devices is, therefore to find a route to combine a (more…)

THURSDAY June 13, 2013
SCV Robotics and Automation Chapter
Speaker: Tom Malzbender, Research Scientist and Independent Consultant
Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Carnegie Mellon University-Silicon Valley, Room 118, Moffett Field
RSVP: not required
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras

In 1900, a party of sponge divers chanced on the wreck of a Roman merchant vessel between Crete and mainland Greece.  It was found to contain numerous ancient Greek treasures, among them a mysterious lump of clay that split open to reveal ‘mathematical gears’ as (more…)

TUESDAY June 11, 2013
SCV Photonics Chapter
Speaker: Prof. Jerome Faist, ETH Zurich
Time: Networking/light dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Intel, Building SC-12, 3600 Juliette Lane, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

Quantum cascade lasers have opened up many new opportunities in quantum electronics, by freeing us from previous limitations in material wavelength limitations.  They have opened up a wide range of wavelengths in the mid and near infrared.  We will discuss how QCL’s (more…)

MONDAY June 10, 2013
SCV Circuits and Systems Chapter
Speaker: Prof. Brian Otis, University of Washington
Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none; $2 accepted for food
Place: QualComm, Building B, 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-cas

Advances in chip and system design will help define the next generation of wireless sensors.  I’ll discuss examples of our work that have enabled new collaborative science.  We will then cover chip design techniques for body-worn/implantable systems and wireless sensors.  Finally, (more…)

WEDNESDAY May 22, 2013
OEB Signal Processing Chapter
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Charles A. Bouman, Purdue University, “Model-Based Imaging”, plus others
Time: Workshop from 9:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) – HPC Innovation Ctr, Greenville Road, Livermore
RSVP: from website
Web: casis.llnl.gov

The Workshop covers signal processing, image & video processing, NDE & inverse problems; radar & wireless communications, radiation detection & isotope ID, machine learning & pattern analysis, control systems, real-time/embeddded systems. and (more…)

Solid State Circuits Chapter Tutorial
Signal Integrity in High-Speed Data Links 
– May 16, 5:30 PM     — Texas Instruments, Santa Clara
– $30 for IEEE members     — $40 for non-members
Two Lectures.   Topics:   – Introduction to high-speed links   – Introduction to signal integrity   – Signal and Timing parameters   – Transmission lines: cross-talk, loss and modeling   – Channel loss and compensation (equalization)   – Continuous Time Linear Equalizer (CTLE)   – Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE)   – Pre-emphasis   – Use case: challenges in PCIe 4.0 data link.
Information, and to register: si2013.eventbrite.com

One-Day CPMT Chapter Workshop
Lighting in Today’s Environment: LED Lighting Explained
- Wed, May 15, 2013, 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM   – at Cogswell College, Sunnyvale
- $60 IEEE members; $75 non-members; $30 students/unemployed (thru May 3)
LED lighting is a key element of green and sustainable lighting. There is a significant gap in the understanding of the potential and reality. Get an overview of the technology and applications, manufacturing, reliability, thermal management, with demos and hands-on exhibits to explore. Instructors from Philips LumiLED.
For further information: www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/cpmt1305w.html