The IEEE Electron Devices Society is a professional society of the IEEE.

History

The IEEE Electron Devices Society was initially formed as the IRE Electron Tubes and Solid-State Devices Committee in 1951, and quickly became a professional group in March of 1952 called the IRE Professional Group on Electron Devices. After IRE's merger with AIEE in 1963, the group became the IEEE Professional Technical Group on Electron Devices, which merged with the Solid State Devices Committee in 1963, and with the New Energy Sources Committee in 1964, becoming the IEEE Electron Devices Group. In 1976 the group changed its name to the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

Field of Interest

In its constitution, IEEE EDS states that its Field of Interest is "all aspects of engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

, physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

, theory, experiment and simulation of electron

Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge. It has no known components or substructure; in other words, it is generally thought to be an elementary particle. An electron has a mass that is approximately 1/1836 that of the proton...

 and ion

Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons, giving it a net positive or negative electrical charge. The name was given by physicist Michael Faraday for the substances that allow a current to pass between electrodes in a...

 devices involving insulators, metal

Metal

A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...

s, organic materials, plasma

Plasma (physics)

In physics and chemistry, plasma is a state of matter similar to gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. Heating a gas may ionize its molecules or atoms , thus turning it into a plasma, which contains charged particles: positive ions and negative electrons or ions...

s, semiconductor

Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

s, quantum-effect materials, vacuum

Vacuum

In everyday usage, vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, such that its gaseous pressure is much less than atmospheric pressure. The word comes from the Latin term for "empty". A perfect vacuum would be one with no particles in it at all, which is impossible to achieve in...

, and emerging materials. Specific applications of these devices include bioelectronics

Bioelectronics

Bioelectronics is a recently coined term for a field of research that works to establish a synergy between electronics and biology. One of the main forums for information about the field is the Elsevier journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics, published since 1990...

, biomedical, computation

Computation

Computation is defined as any type of calculation. Also defined as use of computer technology in Information processing.Computation is a process following a well-defined model understood and expressed in an algorithm, protocol, network topology, etc...

, communications, displays, electro and micro mechanics, imaging, micro actuators, optical, photovoltaics

Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaic power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material...

, power, sensors and signal processing

Signal processing

Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

.

The Society is concerned with research, development, design and manufacture related to materials, processing, technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

, and applications of such devices, and scientific, technical, educational and other activities that contribute to the advancement of this field".

Publications

The IEEE Electron Devices Society publishes a broad range of publications, including:

• Electron Device Letters (EDL) (All issues from 1980 through current)
• Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) (All issues from 1954 through current)
• International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) (All issues from 1955 through current
• Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT)
• Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) (Print)
• Electron Device Letters (EDL) (Print)
• EDS Archival Collection DVD (EDL, T-ED, IEDM, & EDS Newsletter)
• EDS DVD Update Package (DVD)
• Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (T-AP) (Print & Electronic)
• Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuit and Systems (Print & Electronic)
• Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability (CD ROM)
• Journal of Display Technology (Print & Electronic)
• Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters (ECS) (Print)
• Journal of Electronic Materials
  Journal of Electronic Materials
  The Journal of Electronic Materials is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering chemistry and materials science, chemistry, optical and electronic materials, characterization and evaluation materials, electronics and microelectronics, instrumentation and solid state physics and...
  
   (J-EM) (Print & Electronic)
• Embedded Systems Letters (Print & Electronic)
• Journal of Lightwave Technology (J-LT) (Print)
• Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (J-MEMS) (Print)
• Transactions on Nanotechnology (T-NT) (Print & Electronic)
• IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (Print & Electronic)
• Photonics Journal (Electronic)
• Transactions Semiconductor Manufacturing (T-SM) (Print)
• Sensors Journal (Print)
• Solid State Circuits Magazine (Print & Electronic)
• Technology Management Package (Print & Electronic)
• Technology Management Package Mixed Media (Print & Electronic)

Conferences

EDS sponsors and co-sponsors multiple conferences

Academic conference

An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...

annually.