The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at PEC University of Technology organized self-financing Short Term Course on Nanoelectronic Devices (Nanodev-2015) under Continuing Education Programme during July 20-25, 2015. Prof. Manoj Arora, Director, PEC University of Technology, welcomed the participants by highlighting the main purpose behind organizing this course and encouraged the participants to get the maximum benefit for understanding the basic concepts, ideas and physics for the development of futuristic technologies in our research labs at various Institutes and universities. In his inaugural speech, Prof. R.K. Sinha, Director,CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO), Chandigarh emphasised the need to work on nanotechnologies and encouraged the participants for responsible development of products based upon such technologies to meet out the most pressing human and societal needs. The technical modules of course related to timely development of emerging fields of Nanoelectronics were introduced by Prof. Neena Gupta, Head of Electronics Department. Participants include from different CRICK Institutes such as Institute of Nanoscience and technology (INST), Panjab University, CSIO, Centre for development of advanced Computing (CDAC) and JNTU, Hyderabad, Institute of Engineering Technology, Lucknow, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukhestra, etc. A wide range of Nanoscience and Nanoelectronics aspects were covered through the lecture series starting from the Material selection to Optical and Electrical Characterization techniques to Nanoelectronic device fabrication and their potential applications in energy harvesting, medical devices, Microelectromechanical systems and space satellites. As told by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh, Coordinator of the course, renowned nanotechnologist of international and national stature from CEERI, Pilani, INST Mohali, IIT Ropar, SCL, Mohali, and PEC delivered expert talks including the state of art Nanoelectronic technologies such as Nonlinear devices, Solar Cells, Carbon Nanotubes, Nanowires, and Microelectromechanical systems.
