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/

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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

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� MAFAT, Israel Ministry of Defensehttp://www.mod.gov.il/Departments/Pages/Research_and_Development_Agency_Mafaat.aspx

� VP Tel Aviv Universityhttp://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 Scienceshttp://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 Universityhttp://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 Department of Materials Science and Engineering http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/

� Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/

Northwestern University

MRSEC

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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,

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Professors Noam Eliaz (TAU) and David Seidman (NU), Co-Chairs

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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT לשכת הנשיא

03-6422379; פקסימיליה: 03-6408348; טלפון: 69978אביב -אביב, תל-קריית האוניברסיטה, רמתTEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, RAMAT AVIV, TEL AVIV 69978, ISRAEL; TEL. 972-3-6408348, FAX. 972-3-6422379

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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VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT פיתוח לסגן השיא למחקר ו

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Tel. 972-36407082, 6408475; Fax 972-36409352 Email: vpr@tauex.tau.ac.il

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 

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NU-TAU Workshop Program

9:00-9:45

Opening ceremony, Room 011, Engineering Class Building 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

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:45

11:45-12:15

Parallel Session 1: Electronic and low-

dimensional materials Room 011, Engineering

Class Building

PS1-1: David N. Seidman (MSE, NU), Three-dimensional ultraviolet picosecond laser- assisted atom-probe tomo-graphic studies of electronic materials

PS1-2: Yossi Rosenwaks(EE, TAU), Nanowires go electrostatic

Coffee Break

PS1-3: Lincoln J. Lauhon (MSE, NU), Visualizing nanoscale structure and function in low-dimensional materials

PS1-4: Ariel Ismach(MSE, TAU), Synthesis and characterization of 2Datomic-crystals

Parallel Session 2: Photonics

Room 101, Engineering Class Building

PS2-1: Koray Aydin (EECS, NU), Functional hybrid nanophotonic materials and devices

PS2-2: Ady Arie(EE, TAU), Holographic beam shaping in nonlinear optics, plas-monics and electronics

Coffee Break

PS2-3: Selim M. Shahriar(EECS, NU), New directions in precision metrology: superluminal ring lasers and ultra-high Compton frequency collective states

PS2-4: Jacob (Koby) Scheuer(EE, TAU), Nano-antennas at optical frequencies: devices and applications

Sunday, February 22nd

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12:15-14:00 Lunch (Burgerim, Broshim Compound)

14:00-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-15:30

Parallel Session 3: Thin films, coatings nanoparticles and nanoplasmonics

Room 011, Engineering Class Building

PS3-1: Laurence Daniel Marks (MSE, NU), Nanoparti-cles and nanoplasmonics

PS3-2: Yosi Shacham(EE, TAU), 30 years of electroless plating for semiconductor and polymer micro-systems

PS3-3: Noam Eliaz(MSE, TAU), Electroless plating and electrodeposition of rhenium-based alloys for high-temperature applications

Parallel Session 4: Spintronic and magnetic materials

Room 101, Engineering Class Building

PS4-1: Bruce W. Wessels (MSE, NU), Spintronic devices and spin amplification in InMnAs/InAs heterojunction devices

PS4-2: Yoram Dagan(Physics, TAU), 2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects

PS4-3: Alexander Gerber(Physics, TAU), Hall effect spintronics

15:30-17:00 Lab tour

19:30Banquet

(Goshen Restaurant, 30 Nahalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv)http://goshen.rest.co.il/he/home/

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9:00-9:30

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:30

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:15

11:15-11:45

11:45-12:15

Parallel Session 5: Computational materials

science, functional oxides and growth of

nanostructures Room 011,

Engineering Class Building

PS5-1: Oswaldo Dieguez (MSE, TAU), Atomistic simulation of materials: multifunctional oxide films

PS5-2: James M. Rondinelli (MSE, NU), Reimaginingelectronic materials discovery in layered oxides

PS5-3: Oded Hod(Chemistry, TAU), A state representation approach for atomistic time-dependent transport calculations in molecular junctions

Coffee Break

PS5-4: Amir Natan(EE, TAU), Simulating materials and processes at different scales

PS5-5: Peter W. Voorhees(MSE, NU), Vapor-liquid-solid growth: twins and wire composition PS5-6: I lan Goldfarb(MSE, TAU), Electronic structure and properties of transition-metal oxide films for applications in memristor technology

Parallel Session 6: Semiconductors, electronic, thermoelectric and optical

materials Room 101,

Engineering Class Building

PS6-1: Jiaxing Huang(MSE, NU), Pencils, paper and movie discs: curious minds and materials discoveries

PS6-2: Arie Ruzin (EE, TAU), Contacts to high resistivity semiconductors

PS6-3: Alon Bahabad(EE, TAU), Can we “cheat” absorption?

Coffee Break

PS6-4: Matthew A. Grayson (EECS, NU), Moving heat side-ways with transverse thermoelectrics PS6-5: Gerald J. (Jeff) Snyder (MSE, NU), Optimizing electronic performance in thermoelectric materials PS6-6: Richard D. Schaller

(Chemistry, NU), Time-resolved optical characterizations ofexcitons and phonons in semiconductor nanomaterials

Monday, February 23rd

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12:15-13:30

13:30-15:00

Lunch (Aroma Cafe, Beit Hatfutsot)

Organized visit of Beit Hatfutsot (http://www.bh.org.il/)

15:30-16:00

16:00-16:30

16:30-17:00

Parallel Session 7: Electronic and energy technologies

Room 011, Engineering Class Building

PS7-1: Mark C. Hersam (MSE, NU), Nanomaterial heterostructures for electronic and energy technologies

PS7-2: Shachar Richter(MSE, TAU), Bio-molecular electronics: materials and devices

PS7-3: Brian A. Rosen(MSE, TAU), Energy conversion materials from catalytic coatings, fibers, and cloths

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 junctionJiaxig HuangPS8-2: Seda Memik(EECS, NU), Thermal aware design and management of main memory systems

PS8-3: Randall Berry(EECS, NU), EE at Northwestern

Free Evening

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9:00-9:55

9:55-10:50

10:50-11:05

11:05-12:00

12:00-12:55

12:55-14:30

14:30-15:25

15:40-17:00

Tutorials for Graduate Studentsand Post-Docs

Room 101, Engineering Class Building

Tutorial 1: Peter W. Voorhees (MSE, NU), Phase Field methods: From fundamentals to applications

Tutorial 2: Oswaldo Dieguez (MSE, TAU), Atomistic simulation of materials

Coffee Break

Tutorial 3: Matthew A. Grayson (EECS, NU), Integer and fractional

quantum Hall effects: An Introduction

Tutorial 4: Laurence Daniel Marks (MSE, NU), Nanoparticle structure and thermodynamics

Lunch

Tutorial 5: David N. Seidman (MSE, NU), Atom probe tomography (APT)

Students Poster Session

Free Evening

Guided Tour to Jerusalem Departure from Broshim Dorms at 8:00, return by 20:00

Tuesday, February 24th

Wednesday, February 25th

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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

5 Few minutes away by foot south of the campus

5 No-smoking, air-conditioned rooms

5 Wi-Fi in rooms (free of charge)

5 TV and cables in rooms (free of charge)

5 No car parking at dorms (but there are adjacent car parking lots, pay)

5 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.

5 Several shops are available in the complex (including Aroma Cafe, supermarket, hummus and falafel shop, bar, etc.)

5 A Laundromat is available (pay with cash)

Badges:

5 Please wear your name badge at all Workshop events.

Conference Abstracts:

5 The disk-on-key you have received contains the Workshop program and abstracts.

5 The program is also available on the workshop site: http://materials.tau.ac.il/tau-nu

5 Internet: Free internet access is available in the workshop rooms.

5 The general TAU Wi-Fi network: Free-Tau, Key: free-tau

Conference Banquet:

5 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:

5 We meet at 08:00 at the main entrance to Broshim Dorms.

5 Breakfast won't be served that day. Lunch will be provided around 15:00

at The Eucalyptus Restaurant (http://www.the-eucalyptus.com/)

5 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 crafts-people 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 pro-viding 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 begin-ning 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 de-signer 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 Na-tions 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, or-chestras, 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 Na-tional 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 AvivPort of Caesarea - http://www.caesarea.com/en/

Neve Tzedek

Tel Aviv The White City

Tel Aviv Port

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Port of CaesareaPort of Caesarea

Rabin Square

Nahalat Binyamin

The Yitzhak Rabin Center

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Eretz Israel Museum Hatachana

Tel Aviv Port at night

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