第十六届固态传感器、执行器与微系统国际会议会场
科技部副部长曹健林致辞
北京市副市长洪峰致辞
中国科学院副院长阴和俊致辞
Transducers会议30周年颁奖合影
电子所夏善红研究员主持会议
主持Transducers会议30周年庆典的荷兰代尔夫特理工大学 Lina Sarro 教授展示奖牌
西班牙巴塞罗那大学 J.R. Morante 教授介绍下一届会议情形
日本东京大学 Hiroyuki Fujita 教授作报告
美国斯坦福大学 Roger T. Howe 教授作报告
德国弗赖堡大学 Roland Zengerle 教授作报告
The 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers’11) will be held on 5-9 June, 2011 in China National Convention Centre, and about XXXX well-known experts, scholars and delegates in the field of sensors and microsystems from 39 countries and regions, including the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Britain, Spain and China will participate in the conference. Beijing deputy mayor Hong Feng / Gou Zhongwen (to be confirmed), Undersecretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology Cao Jianlin and Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences Yin Hejun Yin attended the opening ceremony to be held on the morning of June 6 and make an important speech. This Conference boasts the theme of “perceiving the world, leading the future”. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Transducers, and the conference sponsors Professor Wen. H. Ko and Dr. Scott Zhang were invited to participate in the 30th anniversary celebration. A number of famous experts in this field attended the opening ceremony, including Ding Henggao, Jin Guofan, Zhou Bingkun, Wang Yangyuan, Wang Li-Ding, Wu Yi-Rong and other academicians, as well as Chih-Ming Ho, Masayoshi Esashi, Nico de Rooij, Roger Howe, Kurt Petersen, Khalil Najafi and other internationally renowned scholars.
This Conference has been strongly supported by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and Beijing Science and Technology Commission, assisted by Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, China Instrument and Control Society, Chinese Institute of Electronics and other academic organizations, and jointly sponsored by the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University and a number of other units. Xia Shanhong, a fellow of State Key Laboratory, Sensing Technology Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences acted as Chairman of the Conference, Professor Bao Minhang from Fudan University as Vice-Chairman, Professor Fan Longsheng from Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, as Chairman of the Technical Committee, and Professor Zhou Zhaoying from Tsinghua University as Chairman of the Organizing Committee.
This session of the Conference totally received 1,652 thesis abstracts and 11 newest research reports, which has broken the top record of contributed articles in the history of the Transducers conference. After a rigorous evaluation of the Technical Committee, the Conference eventually accepted 743 papers, with the acceptance rate nearly of 45%.
This Conference also invited 15 renowned international scholars to make special reports, 3 special reports of which focused on such cutting-edge key technologies as “Mechanical / Physical Sensors and Microsystems”, “Chemical Sensors and Microsystems”, “Bio-sensors and Microsystems” and other topics to carry out in-depth exchange and discussion. In addition, the Conference also invited internationally renowned scholars to open six thematic short-term training courses.
The exhibition affiliated to this Conference attracted more than 30 participant companies, including the US Coventor, Inc., German MEMS Foundry Itzehoe Gobh, French Tronics Microsystems SA, the UK Oxford Instrument Plasma Technology, Japanese USHIO INC. and others, of which China’s MEMSIC Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. is the platinum sponsor of the Conference.
This Session is first held in a developing country in the history of Transducers conferences. The Transducers conference is a high-level academic conference boasting the longest history and the largest scale in the field of international sensor and microsystem technologies. Since its first session in 1981 in Boston, USA, this Conference has been alternately held every two years in America, Europe and Asia, and brought together many well-known experts and scholars active in this field. In recent years, every session has remained at more than 1,000 participants, boasting an important influence in the international arena. The contents of Transducers’ academic articles represent the frontier level and development trend in the field of international sensor and microsystem technologies. Its host application shall need putting forward six years in advance, and it shall be up to its International Steering Committee to vote for determination of the host country. China successively applied in 1989, 1993 and 1999 for the Transducers conference, but all failed. In 2005, under joint efforts of Chinese scholars at home and abroad, China mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan jointly launched application, and finally achieved the right to host the International Conference Transducers'11. The application for this Conference has obtained strong support from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Education, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, China Instrument and Control Society, Chinese Institute of Electronics, and many renowned overseas experts. A number of domestic universities, research institutes and enterprises have paid a lot of effort to host the Conference and made a positive contribution. The successful bid to host Transducers'11 International Conference has significantly marked the increasingly international influence of China in the field of sensor and microsystem technologies.
In recent years, the internet of things has been classified as one of the national strategic emerging industries, and integrated application of a new generation of information technology, and will play an important role in environmental monitoring, health care, public safety, energy, transportation and many other areas. The internet of things is mainly made up of such three parts as the perception layer, network layer and application layer, while the perception layer is supported by the micro-sensor and microsystem technology. The Transducers'11 conference is mainly to discuss the forefront developments and key technology in the fields of micro-sensors, actuators and microsystems related to the theory, design, materials, manufacturing and application, boasting an important innovation-driven effect on the development of the perception layer technology in China’s internet of things.
In recent years, China has made considerable progress in scientific research and technological development of sensor and microsystem technologies, boasting increasing influence around the world, and the number of papers from the China mainland adopted by the Transducers conference has increased from a handful of 2 in 2001 to 74 at present in this Conference. This Conference held in China has attracted a lot of domestic researchers and business representatives to peer extensive academic exchanges with international experts and researchers in various forms, understand and grasp the latest developments and trends in this field, as well as industrial development conditions, promote the progress of the key sensor technologies, and lead the rapid development of China’s sensor and microsystem related industries. On the other hand, in recent Transducers conferences, the majority of the China mainland papers are from young researchers and graduate students, so the Transducers conference has achieved the rapid growth of China's scientific and technological personnel.
China currently has more than 1,000 companies active in the field of sensor and micro-system technologies and in recent years, the whole industry has been gradually improved. But our country still has relatively backward applied basic research and technological R & D capability in the field of micro-sensors and micro systems. This Transducers'11 conference has provided us with an opportunity to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, promote our country’s R & D level in the field of sensor technology and micro-nanotechnology forward to top the world, enhance independent innovation capability and have a new generation of high-tech enterprises growing up, so that China could become a big power in development and application of sensors and microsystems as soon as possible.
During the Conference, Chinese scholars also held a special “Seminar on MEMS / NEMS Future Development”, focusing on “the future development of micro and nano technologies” put forward in the state “Twelfth Five-Year” Plan and offering constructive comments and suggestions.
During the Conference, the “International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest iCAN of Internet of Things for University and College Students” was also held, with 30 teams of young students from 15 countries demonstrating their innovative applications of the internet of things developed on the basis of micro-nano technology.
As this Conference coincides with its 30th anniversary, many pioneers and leading experts in this field gathered in Beijing, and simultaneously a new record in the number of participants has been made, with in-depth exchange successful and fruitful results achieved.
Background Tips: (for journalist friends as reference)
1，General view of international top experts involved in research of sensor and microsystem technologies:
★Chih-Ming Ho (He Zhiming), Professor, Academician of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of American Physical Society, Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and former Vice President for Research (2001-2005) of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has made important pioneering contributions in micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) propulsion technology, micro-nanometer fluid technology, bio-nanotechnology and other aspects. He has published 260 articles and books, and been granted 10 U.S. patents. He is also in Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering and many other periodicals.
★Wen. H. Ko (Ge Wenxun), Professor, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of American Society of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor American Case Western Reserve University. His research covers solid-state electronics, micro-sensors and actuators, biomedical instrumentation, design of implantable electronic systems and so on. Early at the end of 1960s, he had opened up the application of microelectronics technology in the field of the biomedicine, and has published 307 articles and books with 17U.S. patents granted. He boasts one of the sponsors of “International Conference on Solid-state Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems”, ever acting as Chairman of the first and third sessions, and also in the editorial board of Sensors and Actuator and several other journals.
★Roger Howe, Professor, Academician of US National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, and Nano Manufacturing Laboratory Director of Stanford University. He received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 1998 due to his “leading and pioneering contributions to MEMS”. He has also made important pioneering contributions in such aspects as micro-accelerometers, micro-gyroscope, micro electrostatic actuators and micro-resonators, ever acting as editorial board members of IEEE / ASME Journal of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and a number of other journals and Chairman of several international conferences, and also boasting the founder of Silicon Laboratories.
★Khalil Najafi, Professor, IEEE Fellow, honorary president of Institute of University of Michigan and head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has a wide range of research, involving physically integrated sensors, wireless micro-systems, bio-MEMS, MEMS device packaging, etc., and prominently featuring a multi-disciplinary integration. He is also acting as editorial board members of IEEE / ASME Journal of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and a number of other journals. He is also chairman of "The 15th International Conference on Solid-state Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems” and vice chairman of this International Steering Committee.
★Helmut Seidel, Professor and director of Micro-mechanics and Microfluidic Laboratory of German University of Saarland, has had his research work boasting important international influence in the field of micro-gyroscope and micro acceleration, created silicon anisotropic etching technology, and made important contributions to the development of micro-nano manufacturing technology. He is also acting as editorial board members of IEEE / ASME Journal of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and a number of other journals.
★Professor Kurt Petersen, Consulting Professor of Stanford University and IEEE Fellow, is known as the “MEMS father”. He first proposed the silicon micro-mechanic concept, and the company he founded launched the world's first commercial device based on MEMS technology. He has published more than 100 papers, obtained 35 patents, successfully established Cepheid and several other companies, and won the IEEE Simon Ramo medal.
2 The important position of sensor and micro-system technologies in development of China's internet of things:
At present, China is further implementing the scientific concept of development, and positively changing the ways to achieve economic growth. The Internet of Things is highly supported and integrated based on a new generation of information technology, the application of the Internet of Things and its related technologies has become one of the engines to promote a new round of economic growth, and the development of the Internet of Things has become an important symbol to measure a country and region’s comprehensive strength, international competitiveness and modernization. Since August 2009 when Premier Wen Jiabao put forward the “Feel China” concept, the Internet of Things has been officially listed as one of the national strategic new industries in the governmental work report, and the Internet of Things has greatly attracted the concern of the whole society in China. The State “12th Five-Year” plan has made it clear that the Internet of Things will be deployed in ten major fields, such as the smart grid, intelligent transportation, intelligent logistics, finance and services, national defense and military, and it has been predicted in the authoritative media that our country will invest four trillion in the next 10 years to develop the Internet of Things. The industrial scale of the Internet of Things is expected to be up to 200 billion by 2015. However, the present Internet of Things in China is suffering from such problems in need of urgent resolutions as the bottleneck of standardization, no patent ownership in the key aspects of technology and products, the wide gap from leading technologies around the world, limited expansion of business models, and the difficulty in creating uniform standards. As the source for the Internet of Things to get information, the importance of sensors can not be ignored, and the relevant experts believe that the sensors as the basic industry for development of the Internet of things will be first benefited and that the development speed of sensor industry will directly affect that of the Internet of Things. The “16th International Conference on Solid-state Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems” held in Beijing shall be an interactive platform to show the research results accumulated over the past several years in the field of sensor and micro-system technologies. Focusing on the solid-state sensors, actuators and micro-systems involved in the Internet of Things, this Conference covers the current most active research directions in the field of sensor and micro-system technologies throughout the world, including: mechanical / physical sensors and micro-systems, chemical sensors and micro-systems, bio-sensors and micro-systems, medical microsystems, microfluidics, materials of sensors, manufacturing and packaging technology, theory, design and testing of sensors, micro-actuators, RF micro-systems, resonators and oscillators, MOEMS, nano-materials and manufacturing technology, devices and systems, micro-energy systems, and has carried out a wide range of in-depth and comprehensive discussions with internationally renowned experts. Such exchange and communication with international counterparts has deepened foreign scholars and enterprises’ knowledge and understanding of the research status of sensors in China and improved our country’s international influence in the field of sensor and micro-system technologies; this will undoubtedly expand our research vision in the field of sensor and micro-system technologies, enhance our basic research level in this field, and thus promote the rapid development of the Internet of Things in China.
