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The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) is a multi-disciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Nanotechnology carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, literary and educational areas.
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The Council supports the theory, design, and development of nanotechnology and its scientific, engineering, and industrial applications. Nanotechnology is the creation of Useful/Functional materials, devices and systems (of any size) through control and/or manipulation of matter on the nanometer length scale and exploitation of novel phenomena and properties which arise because of the nanometer length scale.
The IEEE Nanotechnology Council is part of Division I – Circuits and Devices and is made up of 22 member societies:
- Aerospace & Electronic System Society (AES)
- Antennas & Propagation Society (AP)
- Circuits & Systems Society CAS)
- Communications Society (COM)
- Components, Packaging, & Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMT)
- Computational Intelligence Society (CI) [Formerly Neural Networks (NN) Society]
- Computer Society (C)
- Control Systems Society (CS)
- Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS)
- Electron Devices Society (ED)
- Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMB)
- Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC)
- Industrial Electronics Society (IE)
- Instrumentation & Measurement Society (IM)
- Photonics Society (PS)
- Magnetics Society (MAG)
- Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT)
- Reliability Society (RL)
- Solid State Circuits Society (SSC)
- Robotics & Automation Society (RA)
- Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society (SMC)
- Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, & Frequency Control Society (UFFC)
The IEEE Nanotechnology Council has many chapters. See the Chapters page for a list with contacts.
Governance The NTC has a Constitution and Bylaws. The NTC is governed by an executive committee (Excom) and an Adminstrative Committee (AdCom). Officers are elected by the AdCom at the annual meeting, held at the International Nanotechnology Conference (“NANO”). Nominations are due to the Chair of the Nominating Committee one month prior to the Annual Meeting.
Excom The Excom consists of the following officers (9):
- President (2 year term, beginning in even years)
- President-Elect (1 year term, in odd years)
- Past-President
- Vice President of Conferences (2 year term, beginning in odd years)
- Vice-President for Educational Activities (2 year term, beginning in even years)
- Vice President of Finance (2 year term, beginning in odd years)
- Vice President of Publications (2 year term, beginning in even years)
- Vice President of Technical Activities (2 year term, beginning in even years)
- Secretary (appointed)
As needed, Standing Committee Chairs and Editors-in-Chiefs are invited to Excom to report activities.
AdCom
The AdCom consists of the following:
Voting members: [30]:
- Excom members [8]
- Society representatives (2 each) [44](one vote per Society, primary voter designated annually by each Society president to cover the event that both representatives are present at the time of voting or for online voting)
- The term of office of a Member Society representative on the Council shall be two years with each of the two Society representatives appointed by the Society in alternate years. Reappointment is at the discretion of the Society represented.
Non-voting members:
- Council Secretary
- Non-Voting Society representatives
- Editor-in-Chief, Transactions on Nanobioscience (T-NB)
- Editor-in-Chief, Transactions on Nanotechnology (T-NANO)
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (INM)
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Nanotechnology Web Content / e-Newsletter
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology (new)
- Chair, Awards Committee
- Chair, Constitution & Bylaws Committee
- Chair, Education Committee
- Chair, Fellows Committee
- Chair, Finance Committee (VP Finance per Bylaw B4.1, Rev. 1)
- Chair, Industry Advisory Committee
- Chair, Liaison and Transnational (Past-President per Bylaw B4.1, Rev. 1)
- Chair, Meetings Committee (VP Conferences per Bylaw B4.1, Rev. 1)
- Chair, Nominations & Appointments Committee (Past-President per Bylaw B4.1, Rev. 1 unless Past-President elects not to serve then appointed)
- Chair, Publications Committee (VP Publications per Bylaw B4.1, Rev. 1)
- Chair, Chapters and Regional Activities Committee
- Chair, Standards Committee
- Chair, Technical Activities Committee (VP Technical Activities per Bylaw B4.1, Rev. 1)
- Division I Director
- Vice President TAB
- Secretary TAB
Committees – NTC has the following Standing committees
- Awards
- Constitution and Bylaws
- Education
- Fellows
- Finance
- Industry Advisory
- Liaison and Transnational
- Meetings
- Nominations & Appointments
- Publications
- Chapters and Regional Activities
- Standards
- Technical Activities
- Distinguished Lecturer Subcommittee
NTC has three major publications and an e-newsletter:
- Transactions on Nanobioscience (T-NB)
- Transactions on Nanotechnology (T-NANO)
- IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology (new)
- IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (INM)
- IEEE Nanotechnology e-Newsletter
NTC has an online Community: IEEE Nanotechnology OnLine Community The IEEE Nanotechnology Council has local chapters in several countries. See the Chapters page for details.