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We are having a break before the start of the afternoon sessions and from the photos you can tell SNDL is hard @ work @ MRS 2008. First time attendees Pu Jing and Miss Kan Cheong will be delivering their excellent talks later this afternoon in the non volatile, and phase change memory sessions, respectively. ...
Kah Wee successfully defended his Phd today! I am sure that his new colleagues and workplace will benefit greatly from his expertise and brilliance. I first knew Kah Wee when I joined SNDL in late 2004. He has always been the yardstick for graduation within our group but he has set the ...
San Francisco is an awesome holiday destination with fabulous weather and iconic attractions. But first you have to suffer an arduous ~17 -19 hours of flight, if you are coming in from Singapore. However, it does seems that I am getting a hang of these transpacific flights as they aren’t as torturous as before. ...
All good things come to an end eventually and today marks the day that my fine record of 4 consecutive acceptances into VLSI/IEDM ends… I wasn’t particularly upset or depress as the acceptance rates for these conferences are low itself. However, the rejection pill is still hard to swallow especially after such a spectacular run ...
The second day of the MRS meeting had Paul Packan from Intel giving an excellent overview of device scaling from the perspective of historical trends and future directions. In short, power and leakages are issues that are currently keeping Intel engineers up at night. One major concern is the source-to-drain leakage arising from band-to-band ...
As typhoon Fung Wong made landfall today, all businesses and schools are closed for the day in Taiwan. This is the second typhoon in a month but it didn’t hit as hard as expected in the Hsinchu area. However, the typhoon seems to have unleash its power onto Taipei and Hualien with torrential rainfall and ...
Alright I got lazy with the blogging. I am known as Mr Lazy for a reason right… I have decided to lump the events of two days into a single entry for convenience and laziness. The last day of the conference saw Mr JohorNot presenting his work at the symposium, which was pretty well delivered. ...
That’s what I am hoping the weekend going to turn out to be. The past three weeks have been GOOD but tough. But it’s things like these, which keeps the passion alive. Today, I got to know that one of my ideas is being actively pursued by leading semiconductor companies. What is even more exciting ...
I am working in the capital of IT in Taiwan. Hence a visit to the Sim Lim square equivalent in Hsinchu is a must! But first to the ubiquitous bubble tea store before heading to geekdom…There were tons of IT products which you don’t need but you will want buy at the stores ...
The problem with cycling to work is that you have to wake up real early and leave real late to avoid the heavy traffic in Hsinchu. And boy do I mean traffic!! With the super garang drivers and crazy scooters zzzooomming here and there with no respect for the traffic lights…Typically the bus is the ...
Running has always been a passion. Not to mention the numerous intangible benefits arising from running especially for us lab rats. It clears the mind and drains away the stress from the demands of graduate school. Sad to say in 2007, my mind was willing but the body was SUPER weak. Maybe it had to ...
I was fast running out of “real estate” on my puny 80GB hard drive. I have not even loaded my music collection into the MB So PIMPING the MB was a no brainer Future MB owners take note that 80GB is pathetic. I added 4GB RAM memory modules in the process of ...
It has been a busy day completing assignments, it’s not something, which I particularly enjoy but it’s just one of those things that has to be done. Amid all the chaos during the random sampling of answers for the assignment, I have much to thank for the valuable “assistance” of Mr Lab Rat, Miss Kan ...
Yes the long arduous journey of mine in the completing this QE report is over. As of 4.10am on a Monday morning the report is completed. All that is left is the printing and binding of the report. It is 41 pages long encompassing 4 chapters. I have to admit my initial goal of a ...
“A graduate student @ rest will tend to stay @ rest unless an external force is applied to it“ Newton’s 1st Law of Graduate Student Behavior.With four days of rest it took quite an effort to overcome the inertia of getting into the lab. The day pass by pretty quickly considering that I had intentionally ...
“Oops I did it again” ought to be the theme song for this phase of Miss Kan Cheong’s journey in life. In her “religious” attempt to minimize the number of charge cycles on her laptop battery so to extend its life. She went to the extreme of removing it during her presentation yesterday because the ...
Time: 2:25am on a day which I hope to complete my QE report. Not doing too well on the progress But definitely still enjoying some of the littlest things in life… YOUTUBE. Trust me this will be one of the best 4 mins that you are going spend in 2008, if you are into ...
The first day of the meeting was devoted entirely to tutorials (short course) for the various symposiums. I attended the tutorial “Trends, Challenges in Doping, and Characterization of Bulk and Thin-Body Semiconductor Devices” given by Ray Duffy from NXP and Wilfried Vandervost from IMEC. The talks were rather informative especially the part on doping …
It has been 16 days since I started on the QE report. Yes… it is taking me forever to complete it and time is running out. The QE itself is on the morning of 05/03/2008. Yikes, it less than a week to the qualifers itself and I have yet to provide the report to the ...
For some strange reasons I am prone to procrastination and I do mean BIG TIME PROCRASTINATION. A case in point was the recent response to a peer-reviewed journal. Journal publication is a big part of graduate school and typically one will put the response to the reviewers as their topmost priority so to get ...
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