The Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems (WINDS) is a week long, international, and interactive workshop designed to explore the fundamental properties of nanoscale devices and applications thereof. In particular, WINDS provides a forum for material, device, and characterization as well as experimental and modeling researchers to interact.

This annual workshop is the successor of the original WINDS and the International Symposium on Advanced Nanodevices and Nanotechnology (ISANN), which were held on alternate years. This merging of the two allows for a single international conference to be held each year in Hawaii in late November or early December. WINDS itself began as an outgrowth of the successful Advanced Heterostructures Workshop (AHW), which has a long history dating back to 1986. In 2008, the name changed from AHW to Advanced Heterostructures and Nanostructures Workshop (AHNW), when in 2010 it changed to WINDS in order to recognize the importance of nanotechnology in general, and the applications to systems. ISANN has a long history as well, as it arose in 2009 from the New Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems (NPMS) and the Surfaces and Interfaces in Mesoscopic Devices (SIMD) conferences, which have been founded in the late 1980s and early 1990s, respectively.

Upcoming conference

WINDS 2024 will take place from December 1 to 6, 2024 at the Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii.

History

2024

WINDS

Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii

Akira Oiwa, Stuart Parkin, Taiichi Otsuji, Alexander Balandin, Fariborz Kargar, Stephen Goodnick, John R. Janowiak

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2023

WINDS

Outrigger Kona Resort and Spa

John Conley, Stuart Parkin, Akira Oiwa, Alexander Balandin, Josef Weinbub, Stephen Goodnick

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2022

WINDS

Royal Sonesta Kaua'l Resort

Jaroslav Fabian, Stuart Parkin, Akira Oiwa, John Conley, Josef Weinbub, Stephen Goodnick

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2021

WINDS

Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Hawaii

Tomoki Machida, Jaroslav Fabian, Akira Oiwa, John Conley, Josef Weinbub, Stephen Goodnick

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2020

WINDS

Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Hawaii

Tomoki Machida, Jaroslav Fabian, Akira Oiwa, John Conley, Josef Weinbub, Stephen Goodnick

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Canceled due to COVID-19

2019

WINDS

Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii

David Janes, Henning Riechert, Tomoki Machida, John F. Conley, Josef Weinbub, Stephen Goodnick

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2018

WINDS

Westin Hapuna Beach Resort, Hawaii

Josef Weinbub, Berry Jonker, Henning Riechert, Tomoki Machida, Stephen Goodnick, Siegfried Selberherr

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2017

WINDS

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Berry Jonker, Josef Weinbub, Tomoki Machida, Stephen Goodnick, Siegfried Selberherr

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2016

WINDS

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Berry Jonker, Wolfgang Porod, Viktor Sverdlov, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Stephen Goodnick

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2015

ISANN

Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii

Koji Ishibashi, Stephen Goodnick, Yoshiro Hirayama

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In Honor of Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing

2014

WINDS

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Viktor Sverdlov, Berry Jonker, Siegfried Selberherr, Koji Ishisbashi, Stephen Goodnick

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2013

ISANN

Sheraton Kauai Resort Poipu Beach, Kauai

Koji Ishibashi, Stephen Goodnick, Akinobu Kanda

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In Honor of Gerhard Abstreiter

2012

WINDS

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Koji Ishibashi, Stephen Goodnick, Akira Fujiwara

   

2011

ISANN

Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali, Maui

Koji Ishibashi, Stephen Goodnick, Junichi Motohisa

 

In Honor of David K. Ferry

2010

WINDS

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Wolfgang Porod, Stephen Goodnick, Koji Ishibashi, David Janes, Siegfried Selberherr, Herb Goronkin

   

2009

ISANN

Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali, Maui

Yoshinobu Aoyagi, Stephen Goodnick, Koji Ishibashi, David K. Ferry

   

2008

AHNW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Yoshiro Hirayama, Stephen Goodnick, Herb Goronkin

   

2007

ISANN

Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Waikoloa, Hawaii

Yoshinobu Aoyagi, Stephen Goodnick, Koji Ishibashi

   

2006

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Stephen Goodnick

   

2005

NPMS-SIMD

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Kapalua, Maui

Stephen Goodnick, Yoshinobu Aoyagi, David K. Ferry, Chihiro Hamaguchi, Jon Bird

 

In Honor of Gottfried Landwehr

2004

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Joachim Wolter, Stephen Goodnick, Yoshiro Hirayama, Klaus Ploog, Herb Goronkin

   

2003

NPMS-SIMD

Beach Resort Marriott, Wailea, Maui

David K. Ferry, Stephen Goodnick, Chihiro Hamaguchi, Yoshinobu Aoyagi, Jon Bird

 

In Honor of Susumu Namba

2002

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Chihiro Hamaguchi, Stephen Goodnick

   

2001

NPMS

Outrigger/Marriott Waikoloa, Hawaii

Susumu Namba, Chihiro Hamaguchi

 

In Memory of Rolf Landauer

2000

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Joy Laskar

   

1999

SIMD

Hyatt Regency, Kaanapallli, Maui

     

1998

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Joy Laskar

   

1997

NPMS

Hyatt Regency, Kaanapallli, Maui

     

1996

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Naoki Yokoyama

   

1995

NPMS

Hyatt Regency, Kaanapallli, Maui

Tsuneya Ando, Chihiro Hamaguchi, Susumu NambaTsuneya Ando, Chihiro Hamaguchi, Susumu Namba

   

1994

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

     

1993

SIMD

Keauhou Beach, Hawaii

David K. Ferry

   

1992

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

     

1992

NPMS

Prince Hotel, Maui

Susumu Namba, Chihiro Hamaguchi

   

1991

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1990

AHW

Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii

Herb Goronkin

   

1989

NPMS

Keauhou Beach Hotel, Hawaii

Susumu Namba, Chihiro Hamaguchi

   

1988

AHW

Keauhou Beach Hotel, Hawaii

Herb Goronkin, Naoki YokoyamaHerb Goronkin, Naoki Yokoyama

   

1987

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1986

AHW

Santa Barbara, California