2014 LESTER EASTMAN CONFERENCE ON
HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICES
Cosponsored by: The ELECTRON DEVICE SOCIETY (EDS) OF IEEE
August 5th–7th, 2014 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Duffield Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
First Call for Abstracts
Abstracts are due May 31th, 2014.
Submit 1- to 2-page abstracts online at
http://www.leconf.com/. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose of the work, specific results
and how the high performance device technology is advanced. Please indicate if it is a student
paper. Please note that all necessary company and/or government approvals must be obtained
before abstract submission. Instructions on how to submit an abstract to the conference are
available at the Conference Website: http://www.leconf.com/. Accepted abstracts will be used for
the 2014 Lester Eastman Conference Program (CD/memory stick) that will be provided to all
attendees during the conference. Proceedings of the 2014 LEC will appear in IEEE Xplore
“2014 Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices (LEC)”.
Papers that emphasize innovative device concepts and physical phenomena leading to new
devices are particularly encouraged. Specifically, papers are solicited covering, but not limited
to, the following technical areas:

High-Speed Devices, Low-Power Switches and IRMMW-THz (high frequency electronics
and optoelectronics; low power and energy efficient switches; quantum cascade lasers;
photodetectors; Schottky and BWO devices; photomixers; waveguides; metamaterials)
 Power Conversion, Switching and Transmission (high efficiency/flexible photovoltaics;
high power electronics/switching; normally-off devices; bio-inspired energy storage)
 On-Chip Thermal Management (thermal management for high performance microwave &
millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics; measurement techniques/packaging)
 “Green” Photonic Technology (photonic devices and systems designed to have reduced
energy consumption or to improve energy efficiency; visible/UV LEDs for lighting/displays;
ultraviolet LEDs for water/air/surface purification and bioscience/monitoring/instrumentation;
photonic techniques for energy generation and transmission; high quantum efficiency
photodetectors/avalanche photodiodes)

Next-Generation Devices (new materials; 2-D crystals; oxides; topological insulators;
nanoelectronics; nanophotonics; plasmonics; spintronics; MEMS; Si photonics)
The Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices is a biennial conference. It was
officially renamed in 2002 from the IEEE-Cornell Conference on High Performance Devices to
honor Professor Lester Eastman, a pioneer in the field of high performance devices based on
compound semiconductors. In 1967, Professor Eastman originated the biennial IEEE-Cornell
Conference in Microwave Semiconductors shortly after he started GaAs research at Cornell in
1965. The conference was later renamed the IEEE-Cornell Conference on High Performance
Devices. Professor Eastman graduated 125 Ph.D. students, more than 40 M.S. students, and
hosted more than 80 postdocs and visiting scientists between 1958 and 2010. Some of the
legendary contributions from the Eastman group include high quality GaAs epitaxy, deltadoping, the first lattice-matched InGaAs channel HEMT, T-gate, ballistic devices and
polarization effects in GaN. In memory of Professor Eastman’s passing in 2013, the 2014
conference will feature a special technical session with invited speakers to honor his technical
contributions to the industry in the high performance compound semiconductor device area.
The 2014 Lester Eastman Conference returns to the location of its origin – the beautiful campus
of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Cornell University, in the scenic Finger Lakes region
of New York State, is conveniently located 5 miles from Ithaca/Tompkins Airport, a 1-hour drive
from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, or a 3.5-hour drive from New York City. The
conference center Duffield Hall, opened in 2004, houses two national nano-technology centers.
2014 Organizing Committee:
General Chair: …………………Dr. P.C. Chao (BAE Systems)
Program Chair: ……………….. Professor Grace Huili Xing (University of Notre Dame)
Technical Chair: ……………… Dr. Paul Maki (Office of Naval Research)
Local Chair: …………………... Professor Ehsan Afshari (Cornell University)
Treasurer: ……………………...Mr. Timothy D. Richter (Cornell University)
Publicity Chair: ………………..Dr. Joe Smart (HexaTech)
Publication Chair………………Professor Shayla Sawyer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Past Conference Chair: ………..Professor Paul Chow (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
2014 Technical Committee:
Avi Bar-Cohen (DARPA)
Patrick Fay (University of Notre Dame)
Jonathan Felbinger (AAAS)
Mike Gerhold (Army Research Office)
James Hwang (Lehigh University)
Debdeep Jena (Notre Dame)
Kei May Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Eric Lind (Lund University)
Leda Lunardi (North Carolina State University)
Joe Qiu (Army Research Office)
Michael Shur (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Mike Wraback (Army Research Laboratory)