Call for Papers

Key Dates

Submission Deadline is: Thursday, July 10, 2025 23:59 PDT

Late News Submission Deadline: August 18, 2025 23:59 PDT

The paper submission deadline is July 10 for submission of four-page, camera-ready papers to provide faster dissemination of the conference’s cutting-edge results. Accepted papers will be published as-is in the proceedings.


IEDM 2024: Typical Themes and New or Trending Areas

  • Typical Themes

    • CMOS platform technologies & opportunities

    • Logic device performance and circuit design challenges

    New or Trending Areas

    • GAA (vertically stacked) nanosheets based devices and circuits; new channel materials

    • Sequential, monolithic 3D integration, heterogenous chiplets, 2.5/3D integration, thermal management

    • Logic for memory

    • Interconnects (BEOL, Backside power delivery)

    • BEOL compatible transistors

    • Advanced, novel process integration schemes and (applications-driven) scaling approaches

    • Process module innovations and progresses in process control & process metrology

    • Device technology co-optimization (DTCO), System technology co-optimization (STCO)

  • Typical Themes

    • 2D and devices on low-dimensional materials

    • Non-CMOS emerging devices

    • Neuromorphic and approximate computing devices

    • Spintronic and magnetic devices

    • Steep-slope devices

    • Quantum computing devices

    New or Trending Areas

    • Topological materials and devices, and phase transitions transistors

    • Emerging state machines, time dynamical systems, approximate computing

    • Novel cryogenic devices

  • Typical Themes

    • Conventional memories

    • Emerging memories

    • 3D memory technologies

    • Memories for AI and near-memory computing applications

    • In-Package memory for PPA augmentation

    New or Trending Areas

    • Memories to break the memory wall

    • Memory-enabled artificial intelligence applications

    • Memory-logic 3D stacking

    • System-technology co-optimization

    • Memory pooling and communication

    • New memory hierarchy

  • Typical Themes

    • Technology CAD and benchmarking

    • Advanced logic and memory device modeling

    • Atomistic material, process, and interconnect simulation

    • Compact models for DTCO

    • Alternative computing device modeling

    • Nanoscale (bio) sensors modeling

    New or Trending Areas

    • Multi-scale simulation with hybrid techniques

    • Advanced packaging and 3D integration modeling

    • Thermal modeling

    • Low-temperature and quantum device modeling

    • Device modeling for photonics

    • Device modeling for in-memory and in-sensor computing

  • Typical Themes

    • SRAM, DRAM, Flash, ReRAM, MRAM, PCRAM, ferroelectric memory, and memory selector for analog in-memory deep learning

    • Memory, logic, and nanoelectronic devices with novel functions and/or materials for new and unconventional compute paradigms

    • Probabilistic and approximate computing enabled by stochastic behaviors of devices and materials

    • Emerging computing algorithms enabled by memory, logic, and nanoelectronic devices

    New or Trending Areas

    • Device-algorithm co-optimization

    • Monolithic 3D integration for neuromorphic computing

    • Neuromorphic sensors and in-sensor computing

  • Typical Themes

    • Heterogeneous optoelectronic integration including sources, modulators or detectors

    • Neuromorphic photonics

    • Single photon emitters and detectors

    • Luminescent devices based on new materials including perovskites and quantum dots

    • Displays and imagers for augmented or virtual reality

    • Holographic devices and displays

    • Displays with unconventional form or size

    • Photodetectors and imagers with new materials or flexible platform and printed electronics

    • Imagers with unconventional spectral bandwidth, high sensitivity, or high time-resolution

    • Image sensors with pixels for range sensing, TOF, RGBZ, LIDAR

    New or Trending Areas

    • Photonic devices for quantum computation and sensing

    • Intelligent Image sensors

    • Advanced on-chip optics for imagers

    • In-display and under-display sensors

  • Typical Themes

    • Power and/or high speed (microwave to THz devices) devices, modules, and systems

    • Manufacturing processes, device design, modeling, physics, and reliability of power and/or high-speed devices

    • Fundamental studies on doping, traps, interface states, and device reliability for power and/or high-speed switching devices

    • Micro and mm-wave devices, such as PAs, LNAs, switches and mixers.

    • Energy harvesting devices and circuits

    • Tunable passives, SAW/BAW devices, antenna arrays

    New or Trending Areas

    * Wide bandgap and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors such as SiC, (Al)GaN, diamond, β-Ga2O3, BN

    * Power devices for applications for automotive and aviation to smart grid

    * Device and circuits for 5G and 6G

    * Antenna arrays and beam forming

    * Extreme environment power and high-speed devices

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  • Typical Themes

    • Component level of FEOL/MEOL/BEOL reliability model

    • Robustness and security of electronic circuits and systems

    New or Trending Areas

    • Reliability of new materials and/or new architectures for transistors

    • Reliability of advanced 2.5D/3D IC advanced package

    • Design for testing (DFT) / Design for reliability (DFR) solutions for improved reliability

    • Reliability of conventional and emerging memories

    • Circuits, systems-level reliability, and aging

    • Thermal and PID/charging management in existing and novel process integration

    • Reliability of RF/mm-wave/5G in high-frequency

      applications

    • Reliability of devices, circuits, and systems for more-than-Moore applications, automotive, aerospace and bio-applications (BioFETs, DNA detection, etc.)

    • Reliability of cryogenic devices for future quantum

      computing applications

  • Typical Themes

    • Physical and biochemical integrated sensors

    • Energy harvesting and storage devices

    • Flexible devices for wearable applications

    • MEMS for Internet of Things

    • Bio-electronic interfaces and implantable devices

    New or Trending Areas

    • Intelligent sensors with embedded AI

    • Multimodal biochemical and physical sensors for healthcare

    • Sensors and devices for human-machine interface

    • Hybrid organic/inorganic microfabrication and device