edfas.org ELECTRONIC DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 28 NO. 3 10 ESREF 2026 The 37th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF 2026) will take place September 21-24 in Vienna. This international symposium has a focus on reliability in all aspects of electronics including new applications in extremely harsh environments such as space, transport, energy conversion, and smart functions. It provides the leading European forum for developing all aspects of reliability management and innovative analysis techniques for present and emerging semiconductor applications. For more information, visit esref2026.org. ITC 2026 The International Test Conference (ITC) will be held October 11-16 in San Antonio. ITC is the world’s premier conference dedicated to the electronic test of devices, boards, and systems covering the complete cycle from design verification, test, diagnosis, failure analysis, and back to process and design improvement. At ITC, test and design professionals will confront the challenges the industry faces and learn how these issues are being addressed by the combined efforts of academia, design tool and equipment suppliers, designers, and test engineers. ITC, the cornerstone of TestWeek events, offers a wide variety of technical activities targeted at test and design theoreticians and practitioners. The conference includes paper sessions, keynotes, tutorials, case studies, and commercial exhibits and presentations, and a host of ancillary professional meetings. ITC is sponsored by the IEEE. For more information, visit itctestweek.org. NANOTS 2026 The 46th annual NANO Testing Symposium (NANOTS 2026) will be held at the Senri Life Science Center, in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, on November 10-12. NANOTS is one of the leading technical symposiums for discussing solutions that improve the testing process of nanoscale devices and materials. NANOTS is sponsored by the Institute of NANO Testing in cooperation with the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Reliability Engineering Association of Japan, and the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers. For more information, visit the NANOTS website at inanot.sakura.ne.jp/nanots. NOTEWORTHY NEWS Stephan Kleindiek graduated from the University of Marburg and went on to earn his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Tübingen. During his doctoral research, he focused on scanning tunneling microscopy and developed a highly precise positioning system known as the Nanomotor. After a research stay at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, he returned to Germany and founded Kleindiek Nanotechnik. Today, the company provides advanced micro- and nanoscale positioning and manipulation systems, widely used in semiconductor failure analysis and other high-precision applications.
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