WINDS 2025 – Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems
The Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems (WINDS 2025) will be held at the Mauna Lani Hotel, Waikoloa, The Big Island, Hawaii, from December 7 to 12, 2025. WINDS is an international and interactive workshop designed to explore the fundamental properties of nanoscale heterostructures and potential device applications. The workshop is composed of morning and evening sessions, with afternoons free for ad hoc meetings to encourage extended interaction and discussion among participants.
WINDS provides a forum for material, device, and characterization as well as experimental and modeling researchers to interact. This breadth of expertise reflects the technical challenges in developing nanoscale devices and material systems, since every device is a heterostructure of one form or another and the properties of the interfaces often determine the functionality and properties of the nanoscale system.
The workshop is the successor of the original WINDS and the International Symposium on Advanced Nanodevices and Nanotechnology (ISANN), which were held on alternate years. WINDS itself began as an outgrowth of the successful Advanced Heterostructures Workshop, which has a long history dating from the 1980s.
Sponsors
Topics
- 2D and 1D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
- Wide-bandgap and emerging semiconductor materials and devices
- Emergent interface phenomena: novel 2DEG systems, proximity effects, etc.
- Beyond CMOS technology: materials and ultra-scaled devices
- Quantum science: topology, chirality, computation, and sensing
- Spintronics: materials and spin-based phenomena
- AI, machine learning, neuromorphic computing and neural networks
- Bioelectronics: interfaces and sensors
- Oxide and multiferroic materials and systems
- Nanophotonic materials and devices
- Energy conversion and harvesting: advanced concepts and systems
- Low-dimensional materials and heterostructures for nanoelectronics
General Session
Invited Speakers
- Karl Unterrainer, TU-Vienna, Austria, Austria
- Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
- Shinichiro Seki, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Heike Riel, IBM, Switzerland
- Dominik Zumbühl, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Jason Petta, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Armando Rastelli, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Special Sessions
2D and 1D van der Waals Materials and Heterostructures
Organizer:Alexander Balandin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Invited Speakers
- Michael Crommie, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Steven Nadj-Perge, California Institute of Technology, USA
- Luis A. Jauregui, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Dragan Mihailović, University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan International, Slovenia
- Jayakanth Ravichandran, University of Southern California, USA
- Alexander Sinitskii, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
- Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, The Ohio State University, USA
Quantum Science: Topology, Chirality, Computation, and Sensing
Organizer: Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo, USA
Invited Speakers
- Seigo Tarucha, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan
- Qihang Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
- Mark von Schilfgaarde, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
- Saroj Prasad Dash, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Energy Conversion/Energy Efficient Information Technology
Organizers:
Kirstin Alberi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Stephen Goodnick, Arizona State University, USA
Invited Speakers
- Emily Warren, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
- Joseph Berry, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
- Qing-Tai Zhao, Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Conference Chairs
General Chair: Detlev Grützmacher, Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Europe Co-Chair: Stuart Parkin, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany
Japan Co-Chair: Taichi Otsuji, ENSEMBLE3 Center of Excellence, Poland & Tohoku University, Japan
US Co-Chair: Alexander Balandin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Communications Chair: Fariborz Kargar, Auburn University, USA
Local Arrangements Chair: Stephen Goodnick, Arizona State University, USA
Local Arrangements Co-Chair: John R. Janowiak, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA), USA
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline : Aug 31, 2025
Hotel special rate deadline: Oct 30, 2025
Early registration deadline: Nov 17, 2025
Conference dates: Dec 7-12, 2025