The First Northwestern University
Tel Aviv University Workshop
The workshop on Semiconductors,
Electronic Materials,
Thin Films and Photonic Materials
Tel Aviv University
February 22-25, 2015
The First Northwestern University
Tel Aviv University Workshop
The workshop on Semiconductors,
Electronic Materials,
Thin Films and Photonic Materials
Tel Aviv University
February 22-25, 2015
http://materials.tau.ac.il/tau-nu
http://en-materials.tau.ac.il/
Committees
Workshop Chairs:
Prof. Noam Eliaz, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Prof. David N. Seidman, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Noam Eliaz, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Prof. David N. Seidman, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Northwestern University
Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv
University
Prof. Julio M. Ottino, Dean, McCormick School of Engineering and
Applied Science, Northwestern University
Dr. Ela Strauss, Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
Scientific Committee:
Prof. Noam Eliaz, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Prof. David N. Seidman, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Northwestern University
Prof. Abraham Nitzan, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
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Sponsors
˜˜ MAFAT, Israel Ministry of Defense
http://www.mod.gov.il/Departments/Pages/Research_
and_Development_Agency_Mafaat.aspx
˜˜ VP Tel Aviv University
http://www.tau.ac.il/vp-office
˜˜ TAU Conference Committee
http://english.tau.ac.il/research_authority
˜˜ The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
http://engineering.tau.ac.il/
˜˜ Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
http://en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il/
˜˜ Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
http://most.gov.il/English/Pages/default.aspx
˜˜ The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
http://www.academy.ac.il/
˜˜ PAZY Foundation
http://www.pazy.org.il
˜˜ Northwestern Provost Office
http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/
˜˜ Global McCormick, Northwestern University
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/global/
˜˜ McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/
˜˜ Northwestern University Materials Research & Science
Engineering Center http://www.mrsec.northwestern.edu/index.htm
Northwestern
University
MRSEC
˜˜ Northwestern University Department of Materials Science and Engineering
http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/
˜˜ Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University
http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are delighted to welcome you to the first Northwestern University – Tel
Aviv University Workshop, 22nd to 25th February 2015.
The goal of this workshop is to build on and strengthen existing close
scientific and engineering interactions between faculty members of the
McCormick
School
of
Engineering
and
Applied
Sciences
(MEAS)
of
Northwestern University (NU) and the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of
Engineering of Tel Aviv University (TAU). There are currently a number of
ongoing collaborations among professors of the departments of materials science
and engineering (DMS&E) and electrical engineering and computer science
(EECS) at NU, and the department of physical electronics within the school of
electrical engineering and the recently founded DMS&E at TAU. It is these
working relationships that generated this workshop.
Professor Noam Eliaz, founding chair of the DMS&E at TAU, spent his
sabbatical year, 2012-2013, working with Professors David Dunand and David
Seidman as an Eshbach Scholar of MEAS. One of the several concrete results of
the meetings involving Professors Eliaz, Seidman, Michael Bedzyk (chair of the
DMS&E at NU) and Julio Ottino (dean of the MEAS) was a document concerning
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joint collaborations between the two DMS&E at both the graduate and
undergraduate levels, which included an inaugural workshop at TAU. After a
meeting among Professors Yossi Rosenwaks (at that time the chair of the
department of physical electronics at TAU), Alan Sahakian (chair of the
department of EECS at NU), Bedzyk, Seidman and Ottino, the goal broadened to
include interactions with the department of physical electronics at TAU.
This inaugural workshop is on the theme of semiconductors, electronic
materials, thin films and photonic materials, which represent
highly
interdisciplinary fields of research. The many related applications are timely
with potentially great impact on the high-technology, nanotechnology, energy,
biomedical, information, communication and defense industries. Internationally
acclaimed experimentalists, computational materials scientists, and theoreticians
from both universities were invited, which will certainly lead to lively scientific
discussions, and which in turn will lead to further inter-university interactions.
The first two days of the workshop will consist of scientific presentations and
intensive discussions, which are anticipated to initiate new collaborations and
joint submissions of grant applications to funding agencies. The third day will
consist of tutorials for and poster presentations by graduate and postdoctoral
students from all over Israel. The fourth day will be one day of sightseeing in
Jerusalem, led by a professional tour guide, to have the NU attendees become
acquainted with some of the customs and culture of Israel.
We thank Tel Aviv University (the vice president, the institute's conferences
committee, the dean of engineering, and the dean of exact sciences),
Northwestern University (the provost's office, the chair of MEAS, and the
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)), Israel Ministry of
Defense, Pazy Foundation, Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, and
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the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for their generous financial
support, which is enabling us to offer an unforgettable event for all attendees.
We welcome you to this important scientific event, which is being held near
the beautiful beaches of the Mediterranean Sea.
Yours respectfully,
S
Professors Noam Eliaz (TAU) and David Seidman (NU), Co-Chairs
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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
‫לשכת הנשיא‬
January 21, 2015
Dear Participants,
I am pleased to see the milestone Tel Aviv University-Northwestern University cooperation agreement, signed
last year, bear fruit with the launch of the joint materials science workshop. I have no doubt that this exciting
gathering will be followed by many more that further our two institutions' shared goal of research excellence in
the service of humanity.
Tel Aviv University's blossoming relationship with Northwestern has opened diverse opportunities for
collaborative projects in areas ranging from business and law to medicine, engineering and the exact sciences.
No less important are new and unique opportunities for partnerships with the Chicago-area Jewish and business
communities – and with alumni of both universities – to support this dynamic activity.
I would like to stress that we are proud of our association with Northwestern University. We are proud to be
welcoming our distinguished Northwestern colleagues to our beautiful campus once again. And we are
especially proud of our shared, ongoing contribution to Israeli-American academic links and to our two
countries' close friendship.
I wish you a rewarding workshop.
Sincerely,
Professor Joseph Klafter
President
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TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, RAMAT AVIV, TEL AVIV 69978, ISRAEL; TEL. 972-3-6408348, FAX. 972-3-6422379
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VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
‫שיא למחקר ולפיתוח‬‫סגן ה‬
January 21st, 2015 Northwestern University and Tel‐Aviv University joint Workshop on Semiconductors, Electronic Materials, Thin Films and Photonic Materials Prof. Noam Eliaz (Tel Aviv University), and Professor David Seidman (Northwestern University) Dear Noam and David, International research collaboration is a rapidly growing component of core research activity for all countries. In global terms, this view underlines the vital need for an interchange of knowledge and expertise amongst academicians in general and scientists in particular. In line with this thinking, Tel Aviv University places a strong emphasis on forging and strengthening international bonds which provide greater opportunity for synergistic research projects that hitherto would not have been pursued. In this context, the cooperation between Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University provides an excellent example of two sister institutions that have joined forces to promote better research, science and engineering programs. The mutual research workshops organized in this context have the potential to strengthen the academic and research collaborations among scientists in the two universities, and enable the development of novel research directions. The subjects of the current workshop – semiconductors, electronic materials, thin films and photonic materials – are at the forefront of research in materials science and engineering and physical electronics. I am confident that this workshop will foster the already established cooperation among researchers from the two universities in these important fields, and serve as a catalyst in the further development of research programs at both universities along these avenues. Sincerely, Prof. Yoav Henis, Ph.D. The Zalman Weinberg Chair in Cell Biology Vice President for Research and Development Tel Aviv University 03-6409352 :‫; פקס‬03-6408475 ,03-6407082 :‫; טלפון‬69978 ‫ תל אביב‬,‫ רמת אביב‬,39040 ‫ ת"ד‬,‫קריית האוניברסיטה‬
Tel Aviv University, P.O.B 39040, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, ISRAEL;
Tel. 972-36407082, 6408475; Fax 972-36409352 Email: vpr@tauex.tau.ac.il
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Sunday, February 22nd
NU-TAU Workshop Program
Opening ceremony, Room 011, Engineering Class Building
9:00-9:45
Prof. Noam Eliaz - Co-Chair, TAU
Prof. David N. Seidman - Co-Chair, NU
Prof. Joseph Klafter - TAU President
Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks - Dean of Engineering, TAU
Dr. Ela Strauss - Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
09:45-10:00
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1:
Electronic and lowdimensional materials
Room 011, Engineering
Class Building
10:00-10:30
PS1-1: David N. Seidman
10:30-11:00
PS1-2: Yossi Rosenwaks
Parallel Session 2: Photonics
Room 101, Engineering
Class Building
PS2-1: Koray Aydin (EECS, NU),
(MSE, NU), Three-dimensional Functional hybrid nanophotonic
materials and devices
ultraviolet picosecond laserassisted atom-probe tomographic studies of electronic
materials
PS2-2: Ady Arie
(EE, TAU), Nanowires go
electrostatic
(EE, TAU), Holographic beam
shaping in nonlinear optics, plasmonics and electronics
11:00-11:15
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:15-11:45
PS1-3: Lincoln J. Lauhon
PS2-3: Selim M. Shahriar
11:45-12:15
(MSE, NU), Visualizing
nanoscale structure and
function in low-dimensional
materials
(EECS, NU), New directions in
precision metrology: superluminal
ring lasers and ultra-high Compton
frequency collective states
PS1-4: Ariel Ismach
PS2-4: Jacob (Koby) Scheuer
(MSE, TAU), Synthesis and
characterization of 2D
atomic-crystals
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(EE, TAU), Nano-antennas at
optical frequencies: devices and
applications
12:15-14:00
Lunch (Burgerim, Broshim Compound)
Parallel Session 3:
Thin films, coatings
nanoparticles and
nanoplasmonics
Room 011, Engineering
Class Building
Parallel Session 4: Spintronic
and magnetic materials
Room 101, Engineering
Class Building
14:00-14:30 PS3-1: Laurence Daniel
PS4-1: Bruce W. Wessels
Marks (MSE, NU), Nanoparticles and nanoplasmonics
14:30-15:00 PS3-2: Yosi Shacham
PS4-2: Yoram Dagan
(EE, TAU), 30 years of
electroless plating for
semiconductor and polymer
micro-systems
(Physics, TAU),
2D to 1D Oxide interfaces:
superconductivity, magnetism and
ballistic transport effects
15:00-15:30 PS3-3: Noam Eliaz
PS4-3: Alexander Gerber
(MSE, TAU), Electroless
plating and electrodeposition
of rhenium-based alloys for
high-temperature applications
15:30-17:00
19:30
(MSE, NU), Spintronic devices
and spin amplification in InMnAs/
InAs heterojunction devices
(Physics, TAU), Hall effect
spintronics
Lab tour
Banquet
(Goshen Restaurant, 30 Nahalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv)
http://goshen.rest.co.il/he/home/
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Monday, February 23rd
Parallel Session 5:
Computational materials
science, functional
oxides and growth of
nanostructures
Room 011,
Engineering Class Building
Parallel Session 6:
Semiconductors, electronic,
thermoelectric and optical
materials
Room 101,
Engineering Class Building
9:00-9:30
PS5-1: Oswaldo Dieguez
(MSE, TAU), Atomistic
simulation of materials:
multifunctional oxide films
PS6-1: Jiaxing Huang
(MSE, NU), Pencils, paper and
movie discs: curious minds and
materials discoveries
9:30-10:00
PS5-2: James M. Rondinelli
(MSE, NU), Reimagining
electronic materials
discovery in layered oxides
PS6-2: Arie Ruzin
(EE, TAU), Contacts to high
resistivity semiconductors
10:00-10:30
PS5-3: Oded Hod
(Chemistry, TAU), A state
representation approach for
atomistic time-dependent
transport calculations in
molecular junctions
PS6-3: Alon Bahabad
(EE, TAU), Can we “cheat”
absorption?
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45-11:15
PS5-4: Amir Natan
(EE, TAU), Simulating materials
and processes at different scales
PS6-4: Matthew A. Grayson
(EECS, NU), Moving heat sideways with transverse
thermoelectrics
11:15-11:45
PS5-5: Peter W. Voorhees
(MSE, NU), Vapor-liquidsolid growth: twins and wire
composition
PS6-5: Gerald J. (Jeff) Snyder
(MSE, NU), Optimizing electronic
performance in
thermoelectric materials
11:45-12:15
PS5-6: I lan Goldfarb
(MSE, TAU), Electronic structure
and properties of transitionmetal oxide films for applications
in memristor technology
PS6-6: Richard D. Schaller
(Chemistry, NU), Time-resolved
optical characterizations of
excitons and phonons in
semiconductor nanomaterials
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12:15-13:30
Lunch (Aroma Cafe, Beit Hatfutsot)
13:30-15:00
Organized visit of Beit Hatfutsot (http://www.bh.org.il/)
Parallel Session 7: Electronic
and energy technologies
Room 011,
Engineering Class Building
15:30-16:00
PS7-1: Mark C. Hersam
(MSE, NU), Nanomaterial
heterostructures for electronic
and energy technologies
Parallel Session 8:
Memory systems
Room 101,
Engineering Class Building
PS8-1: Amit Kohn
(MSE, TAU), The role of chemical
ordering on the operation of the
magnetic tunnel junction
Jiaxig Huang
PS8-2: Seda Memik
16:00-16:30
PS7-2: Shachar Richter
(EECS, NU), Thermal aware
(MSE, TAU), Bio-molecular
electronics: materials and devices design and management of main
memory systems
16:30-17:00
PS8-3: Randall Berry
PS7-3: Brian A. Rosen
(EECS, NU), EE at Northwestern
(MSE, TAU), Energy conversion
materials from catalytic coatings,
fibers, and cloths
Free Evening
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Tuesday, February 24th
Tutorials for Graduate Students
and Post-Docs
Room 101, Engineering Class Building
9:00-9:55
Tutorial 1:
9:55-10:50
Tutorial 2:
10:50-11:05
Peter W. Voorhees
(MSE, NU), Phase Field methods:
From fundamentals to applications
Oswaldo Dieguez
(MSE, TAU), Atomistic
simulation of materials
Coffee Break
Matthew A. Grayson
(EECS, NU), Integer and fractional
quantum Hall effects: An Introduction
11:05-12:00
Tutorial 3:
12:00-12:55
Tutorial 4:
Laurence Daniel Marks
(MSE, NU), Nanoparticle structure
and thermodynamics
12:55-14:30
14:30-15:25
15:40-17:00
Lunch
Tutorial 5:
David N. Seidman
(MSE, NU), Atom probe
tomography (APT)
Students Poster Session
Free Evening
Wednesday, February 25th
Guided Tour to Jerusalem
Departure from Broshim Dorms at 8:00, return by 20:00
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General Information
Conference Venue:
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Housing: Broshim Dorms http://www.meonot-shik.co.il/guest-apartments
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Few minutes away by foot south of the campus
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No-smoking, air-conditioned rooms
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Wi-Fi in rooms (free of charge)
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TV and cables in rooms (free of charge)
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No car parking at dorms (but there are adjacent car parking lots, pay)
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Breakfast is NOT included. However, each apartment includes a small kitchen with
fridge, cooking unit, etc. Coffee, sugar and tea are provided free of charge, but not
milk.
Several shops are available in the complex (including Aroma Cafe,
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supermarket, hummus and falafel shop, bar, etc.)
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A Laundromat is available (pay with cash)
Badges:
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Please wear your name badge at all Workshop events.
Conference Abstracts:
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The disk-on-key you have received contains the Workshop program and abstracts.
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The program is also available on the workshop site: http://materials.tau.ac.il/tau-nu
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Internet: Free internet access is available in the workshop rooms.
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The general TAU Wi-Fi network: Free-Tau, Key: free-tau
Conference Banquet:
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The Banquet will take place at Goshen Restaurant in Tel Aviv (30 Nahalat Binyamin
St.), on Sunday, February 22nd at 19:30 (http://goshen.rest.co.il/he/home/)
Wednesday, February 25th, guided tour to Jerusalem:
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We meet at 08:00 at the main entrance to Broshim Dorms.
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Breakfast won't be served that day. Lunch will be provided around 15:00
at The Eucalyptus Restaurant (http://www.the-eucalyptus.com/)
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We recommend that you bring water, sandwiches/fruits/snacks, comfortable shoes,
hat, sun cream and camera.
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Sightseeing in Tel Aviv
˜˜ The Yitzhak Rabin Center - http://www.rabincenter.org.il/Web/En/Default.aspx
˜˜ Eretz Israel Museum - http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/
˜˜ Tel Aviv Port – http://www.namal.co.il/en/default.aspx
˜˜ Nahalat Binyamin - The Nahalat Binyamin Arts & Crafts Fair takes place
every Tuesday and Friday along the pedestrian mall. More than 200 Israeli craftspeople and artists set up stalls to exhibit and sell their unique and often humorous
creations. It’s an outdoor fair with street performers, clowns and musicians providing free entertainment for visitors. The market is open on those two days from
10am until sundown.
˜˜ Neve Tzedek - South of the Yemenite Quarter, Neve Tzedek was the first
neighborhood built in the “new” city of Tel Aviv, back in 1887. At the beginning of the 20th century Neve Tzedek was the home of many artists and writers,
such as Brenner and Agnon (a Nobel Prize winning author). Here are many
gorgeous little shops in the area, especially on Shabazi Street. You can find designer shops, children's clothes, art, pottery and many more boutique shops, which
would make even the most reserved shopping fan ecstatic. You can get a bite to
eat in the many cafes and restaurants in the area.
˜˜ Hatachana – The New Station Compound - http://www.hatachana.co.il/Home
˜˜ Jaffa Port - http://www.cityguide.co.il/tel-aviv-areas/south/jaffa/
˜˜ Tel Aviv – the White City - Bauhaus Architecture -in 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed
Tel Aviv’s White City a World Cultural Heritage site. http://www.artlog.co.il/telaviv/index.html
˜˜ Culture Square - Tel Aviv is Israel’s culture city. Most of the museums, orchestras, theaters, art galleries, dance venues and music halls come with an entry
fee, however. To get a taste of the city’s arts scene, head over to Culture Square at
the end of Rothschild Boulevard. Here you’ll find the historic Mann Auditorium,
home to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the recently renovated Habima National Theater and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art - all
facing a gorgeously designed public courtyard with a small flower garden, water
fountain and dozens of families frolicking among them.
˜˜ Rabin Square - The main plaza just outside City Hall is known as Rabin
Square, named after Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He was assassinated on
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November 4th, 1995, after a peace rally in this square. A monument to Rabin stands at
the spot where he was killed. Israeli sculptor Yael Ben-Artzi used 16 basalt stones from
the Golan Heights and sunk them into the earth to symbolize Rabin’s deep connection
to the land.
˜˜ Outside Tel Aviv
Port of Caesarea - http://www.caesarea.com/en/
Nahalat Binyamin
Neve Tzedek
Port of Caesarea
Port of Caesarea
Rabin Square
Tel Aviv Port
Tel Aviv The White City
The Yitzhak Rabin Center
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Hatachana
Eretz Israel Museum
Tel Aviv Port at night
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