Sponsored by: With the Technical Co-sponsorship of: Scope of the Conference Infos 2001 will continue the series of high-level conferences in Europe started in 1979. The conference presents the current status in dielectrics, semiconductors/insulator interfaces, and the physics and technology of MOS devices. The forum is intended to bring together scientists and engineers oriented to materials, devices and applications. Papers are solicited in the areas of physics, technology, characterization, and modeling of dielectrics, interfaces, devices and applications. Special emphasis will be given to ultrathin oxides on silicon and alternative dielectrics. Topics include device reliability (radiation, hot carriers, tunneling, etc), atomic scale processing, characterization and modeling, scaling issues, novel material and processing technologies. The Semiconductors considered are silicon, silicon carbide, silicon on insulators, SiGe, and III-V compounds.   Workshop Three workshops will be organized within the conference, including invited and contributing papers. Advanced SOI Devices and Materials Organizer: Sorin Cristoloveanu, LPCS, Grenoble, France Non-volatile Memory Devices Organizer: Alessandro Paccagnella, University of Padova, Padova, Italy High-K Materials for Gate Dielectric Applications Organizer: Martin L. Green, Lucent Tech., Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA   Conference Location The Conference will be held in downtown Udine, a beautiful hystorical city located 100 km north-east of Venice, and close to the Italian Alps. Udine is well served by "Ronchi dei Legionari" airport as well as by Venice airport. Important Dates   Abstract Submission (max. 2 pages incl. figures): January 27, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: March 27, 2001 Registration Deadline: May 20, 2001 Camera-ready Final Paper (at the Conference): June 20, 2001 Submission Information Electronic submission is recommended. Instructions can be found at the Conference site: http://www.uniud.it/infos2001/submission.htm Printed submission is also accepted. Manuscripts can be mailed to: INFOS 2001 Organizing Committee DIEGM - University of Udine via delle Scienze, 208 33100 Udine (Italy) Confirmed Invited Speakers M. Ashraful Alam, Bell Laboratories - Lucent Tech. Ilan Bloom, Saifun Andrea Ghetti, ST Microelectronics Giovanni Campardo, ST Microelectronics Evgeni Gusev, IBM Marc Heyns, IMEC Hiroyuki Kageshima, NTT Di-Son Kuo, TSM Corp. - Taiwan Salvatore Lombardo, CNR - IMETEM Lalita Manchanda, Bell Laboratories - Lucent Tech. Marco Mastrapasqua, Bell Laboratories - Lucent Tech. Yukinori Ono, NTT Hidemi Takasu, Rohm Olivièr Vancauwenberghe, ESIEE - Paris Eric M. Vogel, National Institute of Standards and Technology René Zingg, Philips     INFOS 2001 Conference Chairman Enrico Sangiorgi DIEGM University of Udine via delle Scienze 208 33100 Udine, Italy fax: +39 0432 558251 e.mail: infos2001@uniud.it web: http://www.uniud.it/infos2001 Local Committee Enrico Sangiorgi, Conference Chairman Luca Selmi, Proceeding Editor Antonio Abramo, Local Arrangements Roberta Fabbro, Conference Office