Talk: Materials and Processes to Enable Multifunctional Miniaturisation
Speaker： Professor Changqing Liu, Loughborough University, UK
Time：09:30-10:30, July. 27 (Monday)
Location：Room 205, School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Abstract: For some decades the world has observed the ultimate impact of device miniaturisation, which has led to a dramatic growth in national and global revenues alongside enormous benefits brought to human activities, in healthcare/medical, energy, space, transport, communication and defence sectors. Evolving initially from silicon-based manufacturing technologies thanks to huge investment and established infrastructure, the current state-of-the-art is characterised by moving further according to “More than Moore” and has substantially extended global capacity, achieving complex microsystem integration using hybrid processes, multi-materials that are confined in ever smaller spaces or dimensions. The bottlenecks and challenges in the endeavour of continuous miniaturisation thus exist in the fundamental understanding of underpinning phenomena to support the paradigm of future-generation miniaturised devices. In particular, with wider range of technology, novel materials and fabrication processes being available, the challenges yet still exist in elaborating the fundamental aspects of the materials interfacial interactions which will ultimately govern the functionality and reliability of any integrated devices. This talk is intended to demonstrate the how the fundamental research can serve such a purpose through several case studies.
Biography: Changqing Liu received his B. Eng from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (1985); and his MSc from the Chinese Academy of Science (1988) in China. He was then appointed as an assistant professorship for 5 years at Institute of Metals Research of Chinese Academy of Science. Had secured an Overseas Research Scholarship from 1993 he moved to UK reading his PhD at Hull University. After obtaining his PhD, he worked for 3 years as postdoctoral research fellow at Birmingham University in UK. From 2000 he joined the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, where he became Professor of Electronics Manufacture since 2011. His current research focuses on novel materials and innovative manufacturing processes to enable multifunctional miniaturised devices. He has published over 220 technical papers, and currently a senior IEEE member serving as Chair of the Interconnections Committee of ECTC (USA) and Chair of Packaging Materials & Processes Committee of ICEPT (China).
