2nd International Workshop onTHERMAL INVESTIGATIONS of ICs and MICROSTRUCTURES (THERMINIC 1996), September 25-27,Budapest Hungary: Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems

The first THERMINIC Workshop was held in Grenoble in 1995, it gathered together about 90 attendees from Europe, the USA and Japan. The second THERMINIC Workshop will be held in Budapest, September 25-27, 1996. THERMINIC Workshops are a series of events to discuss the essential thermal questions of microelectronics and microstructures. These questions are becoming more and more crucial with the increasing element density of deep submicron downscaling of integrated circuits necessitating thermal simulation, monitoring and cooling. The high element density of MCMs and the mobile parts of microsystems raise newer and newer thermal problems to be solved in the near future. Thermal effects on the other hand can be used as bases of sensors or other functional structures