Conference 4591

Room: Terrace II ·Monday-Wednesday 17-19 December 2001
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #4591

Monday 17 December

Official Opening 8.15 to 9.10

Room: Terrace Ballroom

Monday Plenary Speakers 9.10 to 11.00

9.10 Novel Nano-organisms (Nanobes): Living Analogues for Martian "Nanobacteria"?, Philippa Uwins, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [4590-01]

Coffee Break 9.50 to 10.10

10.10 Motility of Nanobes: Wider Perspective with Possible Technological Applications, Richard B. Hoover, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (USA) [4590-02]

SESSION 1

Room: Terrace II Mon. 11.10

Surveying the Field

11.10 Nanoelectronic and nanomechanical systems (Invited Paper), A. Cleland, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara (USA) [4591-02]

11.40 An Australian National Networked Tele-Test Facility for Integrated Systems, Stefan Lachowicz, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [4591-03]

12.10 High-level design concepts for reconfigurable computing (Invited Paper), G. Milne, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) [4591-04]

Lunch Break 12.40 to 14.00

SESSION 2

Room: Terrace II Mon. 14.00

Systems Issues for MEMS

14.00 MEMS and NEMS-based smart devices and systems (Invited Paper), V. K. Varadan, V. V. Varadan, The Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA) [4591-05]

14.30 State of commercialization of MEMS: present and future prospects, A. Hariz, Univ. of South Australia (Australia) [4591-06]

14.50 Interfacing requirements for MEMS components in system-on-chip methodologies, N. W. Bergmann, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [4591-07]

Refreshment Break 15.10 to 15.30

SESSION 3

Room: Terrace II Mon. 15.30

Quantum and Neural Computing

15.30 Quantum electromechanical systems (Invited Paper), G. J. Milburn, R. Polkinghorne, H. S. Goan, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [4591-08]

16.00 Neural information transfer in a noisy environment, M. McDonnell, C. E. P. Pearce, D. Abbott, Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4591-09]

16.20 Modeling of electrostatic gate operations in the Kane solid state quantum computer, C. I. Pakes, D. N. Jamieson, C. J. Wellard, S. D. Prawer, Univ. of Melbourne (Australia); A. S. Dzurak, A. R. Hamilton, R. G. Clark, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia) [4591-10]

16.40 Quantum chemical design of logic gates of classical and quantum molecular computers and light driven molecular logical machines, A. Tamulis, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (Lithuania); Z. Rinkevicius, Kaunas Technology Univ. (Lithuania); V. Tamulis, J. Tamuliene, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (Lithuania) [4591-11]

Tuesday 18 December

Plenary Presentation 8:30 to 9:10

Room: Terrace Ballroom

Biomimetic Visual Detection Based on Insect Neurobiology, David C. O'Carroll, Univ. of Washington (USA) and Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4590-01]

SESSION 4

Room: Terrace II Tues. 09.10

Image and Audio Processing

09.10 From living insects to autonomous robots (Invited Paper), M. V. Srinivasan, S. Zhang, J. Chahl, Australian National Univ. (Australia) [4591-12]

09.50 Motion detection algorithms using template model, H. Nguyen, D. Abbott, Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4591-13]

Refreshment Break 10.10 to 10.40

10.40 Morphological processor for real-time image processing, F. González, O. Tubio, F. Tobajas, V. d. Armas, R. Esper-Chaín, R. Sarmiento, Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) [4591-14]

11.00 Gallium arsenide processing elements for motion estimation full-search algorithm, J. F. Lopez, P. Cortes, S. Lopez, R. Sarmiento, Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) [4591-15]

11.20 Mass sensitivity of layered shear-horizontal surface acoustic wave devices for sensing applications, K. Kalantar-Zadeh, A. Trinchi, W. Wlodarski, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) [4591-16]

11.40 Antireflection coating for ultrasound sources in air by microstructured subwavelengths surfaces, W. Stork, S. Hey, Univ. Karlsruhe (Germany); A. Wagner, Visionet GmbH (Germany) [4591-17]

Lunch Break 12.00 to 14.00

SESSION 5

Room: Terrace II Tues. 14.00

Virtual Prototyping

14.00 Modeling MEMS manufacturability with virtual prototyping CAD tool, R. Sitte, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [4591-18]

14.20 User interface for the virtual reality prototyping of micro-electro-mechanical systems software design tools, O. Bourne, R. Sitte, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [4591-19]

14.40 Sensor modeling for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) virtual reality prototyping CAD tools, K. Udono, R. Sitte, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [4591-20]

Refreshment Break 15.00 to 15.30

15.30 Virtual reality modeling aiding in MEMS design, Z. Li, R. Sitte, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [4591-21]

15.50 Design and modeling of microactuators in MEMS virtual reality prototyping CAD tool, M. Aumeerally, R. Sitte, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [4591-22]

16.10 Poster Overviews: Poster authors may give three-minute oral overviews (with one slide) of their poster in preparation for the Poster Session to follow.

Posters -Tuesday

Posters will be displayed in the Prefunction Area. Poster authors may set up their posters from 10.00 on for allday previewing. Poster presenters will stand by their posters from 17.30 to 19.00 to answer questions. Posters must be removed at the end of the poster session.

• New actuation method for push-pull electrostatic comb drive, T. Zhao, Y. C. Liang, Y. P. Xu, S. S. Boh, National Univ. of Singapore [4591-38]
• Characterization of a CMOS humidity sensor using several sensing films, Y. Qiu, C. A. Leme, L. Alcacer, J. E. Franca, Univ. Tecnica de Lisboa (Portugal) [4591-39]
• Implementation of visual motion detection with contrast adaptation, P. A. Shoemaker, Tanner Research, Inc. (USA); D. O'Carroll, Univ. of Washington (USA) [4591-40]
• Integrated circuit for SAW and MEMS sensors, W. J. Fischer, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany); P. König, Fraunhofer Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme (Germany); M. Plötner, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany); H. J. Holland, Fraunhofer Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme (Germany); T. Hoffman, H. Stab, O. Berger, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany) [4591-41]
• Experimental investigation of sensitivity dependence with respect to waveguide position on a micromachined diaphragm in a silicon-based integrated optic pressure sensor, T. Goto, A. Yamada, M. Ohkawa, S. Sekine, T. Sato, Niigata Univ. (Japan) [4591-42]
• Miniaturized use for 3D photon storage, G. Zhang, Central China Normal Univ. (China) [4591-43]
• Low-hardware complexity color segmentation method for human skin detection, N. Habili, Adelaide Univ. (Australia); A. Moini, Intelligent Pixels Inc. (Australia); C. C. Lim, Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4591-44]
• Digital vision sensor with pixel level analog-to-digital converter, A. Bermak, A. Bouzerdoum, K. Eshraghian, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [4591-45]
• New active pixel sensor layout technique for higher fill-factor and improved matching characteristics, A. Bermak, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [4591-46]
• Time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability in elderly people, H. C. Sager, J. Guntermann, Fachhochschule Aargau (Switzerland) [4591-47]
• Electron transport through two connected quantum dots, G. Berman, A. R. Bishop, G. D. Doolen, J. Rehacek, Los Alamos National Lab. (USA) [4591-48]
• Role of interference and entanglement in quantum neural processing, A. A. Ezhov, Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Fusion Research (Russia); G. Berman, Los Alamos National Lab. (USA) [4591-49]
• Real life: a cellular automaton for investigating competition between pleiotropy and redundancy, T. L. Hoo, A. Ting, Ctr. for Biomedical Engineering (Australia); E. O'Neill, Australian National Univ. (Australia); A. Allison, D. Abbott, Ctr. for Biomedical Engineering (Australia) [4591-50]

Wednesday 19 December

Plenary Presentation 8:30 to 9:10

Room: Terrace Ballroom

8.30 Micro-nanosystems by bulk silicon micromachining, M. Esashi, Tohoku Univ. (Japan) [4593-28]

SESSION 6

Room: Terrace II Wed. 09.10

RF and GaAs Applications

09.10 Classifying biological samples using submillimeter waves, B. Ferguson, D. A. Gray, D. Abbott, Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4591-23]

09.30 RF MEMS and reconfigurable conformal fractal antennas, V. K. Varadan, K. J. Vinoy, V. V. Varadan, The Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA) [4591-24]

09.50 Thin film characterization using terahertz differential time-domain spectroscopy an double modulation, S. P. Mickan, K. Lee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA); J. Munch, D. Abbott, Adelaide Univ. (Australia); X. Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) [4591-25]

Refreshment Break 10.10 to 10.40

10.40 Gallium nitride t-ray transmission characteristics, B. Ferguson, S. P. Mickan, D. Pavlidis, D. Abbott, Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4591-26]

11.00 AFM-based MEMS displacement sensor, F. E. Tay, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (Singapore) [4591-27]

11.20 Differential current mode I/O pads for 2 Gb/s in gallium arsenide, R. Esper-Chain, F. Tobajas, R. Sarmiento, Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) [4591-28]

11.40 Non-idealities effect on photonic oversampling ADCs, S. F. Al-Sarawi, A. Cheng, A. H. Tan, Y. K. Chong, Adelaide Univ. (Australia); K. J. Grant, W. Marwood, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) [4591-29]

Lunch Break 12.00 to 14.00

SESSION 7

Room: Terrace II Wed. 14.00

Devices, Circuits, and Structures

14.00 Implementation of an ATM transceiver over SDH with add/drop function at 2.5 Gbp, O. Tubio, F. Gonzalez, F. Tobajas, V. d. Armas, R. Esper-Chain, R. Sarmiento, Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) [4591-30]

14.20 ASIC for frequency to digital conversion, V. K. Varadan, N. Ramalingam, V. V. Varadan, The Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA) [4591-31]

14.40 Low-power high-speed threshold logic and its application to arithmetic circuit design, P. Celinski, Adelaide Univ. (Australia); J. F. Lopez, Univ. of Las Plamas de Gran Canaria (Spain); S. F. Al-Sarawi, D. Abbott, Adelaide Univ. (Australia) [4591-32]

Refreshment Break 15.00 to 15.30

15.30 Wireless navigation inertial sensors on a single chip, V. K. Varadan, V. V. Varadan, The Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA) [4591-33]

15.50 Gallium arsenide multiplierless filter bank for two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D-DWT) computation, J. F. Lopez, S. Lalchand, F. Tobajas, A. Nunez, R. Sarmiento, Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) [4591-34]

16.10 Design and test of a low-drift, low-noise, and large-range micro-accelerometer, W. Su, B. Peng, D. Zhang, China Academy of Engineering Physics (China) [4591-35]

16.30 High-performance MEMS bandpass filters for acoustic signal processing applications, S. H. Shen, S. T. Young, National Yang Ming Univ. (Taiwan); W. Fang, National Tsing Hua Univ. (Taiwan) [4591-36]

16.50 Influence of initial curvature and heating ratio on micromachines thermal biomorph actuation, C. Hsu, W. Hsu, National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan) [4591-37]

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