ISSE 2026 Keynote and Invited Speakers

Title of presentation: 

Micro/Nanoelectronics: Current Status, Outlook, and Reliability Issues

Speaker: 

Juin J. Liou, Ph.D.

Chair Professor, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

Chang Jiang Scholar Endowed Professor, Ministry of Education, China

Honorary Endowed Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, Taipei University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, National Yilan University, Taiwan

Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, Fellow of AAIA

Abstract

The industry of micro/nanoelectronics is highly vital to the global economy. While the research and development of microelectronics has been very active and fruitful in the past 40 years, many new technologies have emerged recently which makes the field of micro/nanoelectronics evolving, challenging, and unpredictable in the foreseeable future. Aside from the various semiconductor process and design metrics, reliability is also a critical measure to the quality of micro/nanoelectronic devices/circuits/systems, as no products can prevail in the markets without a high level of reliability.

This talk has two parts, and it offers helpful information from the semiconductor industry perspective. An overview on the background, current status, and outlook of the field of micro/nanoelectronics will first be introduced in this talk. This is followed by the discussions of micro/nanoelectronics reliability background, protection requirements, and viable solutions for the current and emerging technologies.   

Bio of Juin J. Liou

Juin J. Liou received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA in 1982, 1983, and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida where he held the positions of Pegasus Distinguished Professor, Lockheed Martin St. Laurent Professor, and UCF-Analog Devices Fellow. Dr. Liou is currently a chair professor at Shandong University of Science and Technology, China. Dr. Liou’s research interests are electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design, modeling and simulation, and characterization. 

Dr. Liou holds 30 patents and has published 13 books, more than 375 journal papers (including 25 invited review articles), and more than 280 papers (including more than 140 keynote and invited papers) in international and national conference proceedings. Dr. Liou has served as a technical reviewer for various journals and publishers, general chair or technical program chair for a large number of international conferences, regional editor (in USA, Canada and South America) of the Microelectronics Reliability journal, and guest editor of 7 special issues in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Microelectronics Reliability, Solid-State Electronics, World Scientific Journal, and International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. 

Dr. Liou received ten different awards on excellence in teaching and research from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and six different awards from the IEEE. Among them, he was awarded the UCF Pegasus Distinguished Professor (2009) – the highest honor bestowed to a faculty member at UCF, UCF Distinguished Researcher Award, IEEE Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2004 for exemplary engineering teaching, research, and international collaboration, and IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award in 2014 for promoting and inspiring global education and learning in the field of electron devices. His other honors are Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Fellow of UCF-Analog Devices, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS), and Distinguished Lecturer of National Science Council. He holds several honorary professorships, including the Chang Jiang Scholar Endowed Professor – the highest honorary professorship in China.

Dr. Liou had served as the IEEE EDS Vice-President of Regions/Chapters, IEEE EDS Treasurer, IEEE EDS Finance Committee Chair, Member of IEEE EDS Board of Governors, and Member of IEEE EDS Educational Activities Committee.