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edfas.org 27 ELECTRONIC DEV ICE FA I LURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 23 NO . 4 NOTEWORTHY NEWS NANOTS 2021 The 41st NANO Testing Symposium (NANOTS 2021) will be held October 25-27 at KFC Hall, Kokusai Fashion Center, in Tokyo. 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 www-nanots.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/en. IEDM 2021 The 67th International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) will be held December 11-15 at theHilton San FranciscoUnion Square. IEDM is a leading forumfor reporting breakthroughs in the technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling of semiconductors and other electronic devices. Topics of interest include circuit and device interactions; characterization, reliability, and yield; compound semicon- ductor and high-speed devices; memory technology; modeling and simulation; nano device technology; optoelectronics, displays, and imagers; power devices, process and manufacturing technology, and sensors, MEMS, and BioMEMS. IEDM is sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society. For more information, visit ieee-iedm.org and watch for any updates to the meeting plan. IRPS 2022 The IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium’s (IRPS) annual conference will be held March 27-31, 2022, at the Hilton in downtown Dallas. The IRPS technical program includes technical sessions, keynotes and invited talks on emerging issues, tutorials, workshops, poster sessions, a year-in-review seminar, and equipment demonstrations. IRPS 2022 is soliciting increased participation in the following areas: circuit reliability and aging; reliability of RF/mmW/5G devices and system electronics reliability; and neuromorphic computing. The IRPS Conference is sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society and IEEE Electron Devices Society. For more informa- tion, visit the IRPS website at irps.org and watch for any updates to the meeting plan.