PRC IAB Fall 2022 Meeting

Session I

Introduction – Madhavan Swaminathan, PRC Director

Welcome – Steven W. McLaughlin, Provost, GT

Welcome – Chaouki Abdallah, EVPR, GT

Welcome and PRC Transition Plans – Oliver Brand, Director, IEN GT

PRC Overview – Madhavan Swaminathan, PRC Director

Keynote: RF Heterogeneous Integration using Photosensitive Glass Ceramics, Jeb H. Flemming, CTO, 3DGS

Session II: Wireless Technologies for 5G & Beyond

Chairs: Sophia Madelone and Yifan Wang

Antenna Integration in Glass Interposers, Serhat Erdogan & Lakshmi Narasimha, ECE

Student Poster Session and Q&A

Overview, Strategy, Technical Approach and Summary – Xiaofan Jia, PhD Student

  1. Nahid Aslani Amoli: Demonstration and Characterization of Diplexers, Couplers, and IPDs on Alumina Ribbon Ceramic Substrates for 5G NR Bands
  2. Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaykumar: Design and Modelling of interconnects and antenna arrays on glass
  3. Kai-Qi Huang: Sub-Terahertz Antenna in Package
  4. Mutee Ur Rehman: Substrate Integrated Waveguides
  5. Xiaofan Jia: Planar Goubau Line and Chip Embedded Package for D-Band Applications
  6. Xingchen Li: RF Chip Embedding on Glass Interposer for 5G Application

Industry Feedback – Moderator: Martin Letz, Schott

Session III: High Density Interposers

Chairs: Oluwaseyi Akinwande and Seunghyup Han

Ultra-low-k dielectrics for high-bandwidth package substrates, Pratik Nimbalkar, Pragna Bhaskar, and Mohan Kathaperumal, PRC Students & Research Faculty, PRC   

Student Poster Session and Q&A

Overview, Strategy, Technical Approach and Summary – Mohan Kathaperumal, Research Faculty, PRC

7. Pratik Nimbalkar: Electrical reliability of 1 um RDL
8. Christopher Blancher: Lithography and TGV Processes for Multilayer Test Vehicle
9. Pragna Bhaskar: Electrical characterization and CTE measurement of ultra-low-k dielectric films
10. Sai Ambi Venkataramanan: Surface homogeneity of nanofilms and plasma chemistry optimization for micro via etching

Industry Feedback, Jobert Van Eisden, Atotech

Session IV: Industry Panel

PRC Last Four Years – Industry Perspective; Moderator: Steven Verhaverbeke (Applied Materials)

Martin Letz (Schott) 

Andrew Ketterson (Qorvo) 

Kimiyuki Kanno (JSR) 

Jobert Van Eisden (Atotech) 

Session V: CHIPS ACT & Workforce Development

The Way FORWARD: Plotting Pathways for Emerging Technology through Workforce Training, Arthur Evans and Tavarez Holston, Dean and President, Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Session VI: Materials for Power Delivery, Photonics and Harsh Environment

Chairs: Yiliang Guo and Pragna Bhaskar

Hybrid Bonding Technologies for Low Temperature Fine Pitch (<10 µm) Interconnects in 3D Architectures – Janagama Goud & Jack Moon, Research Faculty, PRC

Student Poster Session and Q&A

Overview, Technical Approach, Summary – Mohan Kathaperumal and Jack Moon, Research Faculty, PRC

11.  Jose Lopez Ninantay: Characterization of polymer waveguide materials
12. Prahalad Murali: Embedded Magnetic Core Inductors – Materials and Processes
13. Rakesh Krishna: Performance evaluation of the polymer waveguides on glass
14. Jiaxiong Li: High performance epoxy molding compound for high power packaging
15. Pavithra Priyadarshini Kuppakone: Chip-to-substrate polymer-to-polymer hybrid bonding for fine-pitch interconnections
16. Serhat Erdogan: Broadband Characterization of Chip-to-Package Interconnects in Die-Embedded Glass Interpose

Industry Feedback – Moderator: Steven Verhaverbeke, Applied Materials

Nov 18, 2022

Keynote: Machine Learning (ML) Based Design of Terabyte/s Bandwidth 3D Semiconductor Systems for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Joungho Kim, Professor, KAIST

Path Forward, Muhannad Bakir, PRC Interim Director, Professor, ECE

Session VII: Design of AI & HPC Systems

Chairs: Nikhil Damani and Nithin Nedumthakady

Photonics Integration – The Future of Packaging – Ali Adibi, Professor, ECE

Student Poster Session and Q&A

Overview, Technical Approach, Summary – Rahul Kumar, Research Faculty, PRC

  1. Eric Huang: RCS compression through anisotropic point scatterer model
  2. Mercy Daniel Aguebor: Design Considerations for Interposer Fabrication
  3. Osama Bhatti: Inverse Design of Power Delivery Networks using Invertible Neural Networks
  4. Pruek Vanna-iampikul: Glass Interposer Integration of Logic and Memory Chiplets: PPA Power/Signal Integrity Benefits
  5. Oluwaseyi Akinwande: Inverse Design of High-Speed Channel
  6. Yiliang Guo: Machine Learning for Rapid Assessment of EM Response
  7. Seunghyup Han: PDN Optimization with Power Supply Noise Reduction
    24. Yifan Wang: WLP Based Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Fast EM Response Simulation

Industry Feedback – Moderator: Andrew Ketterson, Qorvo

Session VIII: Assembly, Reliability & Thermal Management

Chairs: Xiaofan Jia and Pratik Nimbalkar

Assembly and Reliability of High-Performance Glass Packages, Vanessa Smet, Assistant Professor, ME

Student Poster Session and Q&A

Overview, Technical Approach Summary – Jack Moon, Research Faculty, PRC


25. Joon Woo Kim: Thermal Management Solutions for Advanced Glass Panel Embedded Die Packaging/Heterogeneous Integration 26. Venkatesh Avula: Package-integrated Thermal Management for Embedded Passives
27. Ahmet Mete Muslu: Vertically Integrated Power Delivery and Thermal Management in SiC Drive Inverter Package
28. Yongwon Lee: Thermo-Mechanical Reliability of Flip-Chip on Glass for Space Applications
29. Zhijian Sun: High thermal conductivity epoxy composites for 3D semiconductor packaging
30. Ramon Sosa: Reliability assessment of Cu-pillar interconnections with sintered nanoporous-Cu caps
31. Nithin Nedumthakady: Synthesis, Characterization, and Implementation of Magneto-Electrodeposited Cu-Gr Composites as High-k, Stress-Reducing Conductors
32. Alex Moss: High-performance copper-graphene composite foams for vapor chambers

Industry Feedback – Moderator: Kirk Christiansen, Rogers Corporation

PRC Tour – Lila Dahal, PRC Facilities Manager