Beginning in 1998, workshops dedicated to a special field were incorporated to the programme of the MIDEM Conferences. During the workshop, five to seven invited speakers present papers on the chosen topics from different aspects within their special field, thus offering the audience valuable information. Time for thorough discussions is provided between invited presentations. Attendance at the workshop is included in the Conference registration fee.

For the year 2005, we are pleased to announce a
 

Design for the environment and for environmental management systems is not new to the electronics sector. However, the EU legislation RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and WEEE Directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) requires that all electrical equipment on sale in Europe from 1 July 2006 has to be “green”. The change to lead-free and halogen-free materials is affecting the global marketplace, motivating all manufacturers and suppliers to eliminate lead and halogen materials from their products. This Workshop will bring together international experts from this and related fields to exchange ideas and to discuss these subjects and to help, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises to meet future challenges in the field of environmentally benign electronics.

The workshop is jointly organized by MIDEM – Society for Microelectronics, Electronic Components and Materials, Ljubljana, Slovenia, by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, and Electronics and Electrical Engineering Association, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The programme of the Workshop on “Green Electronics” will consist of several invited papers and several regular papers which will discuss the following subjects:

-        Lead-free soldering: Materials and processes

-        European and Slovenian policy/legalisation on hazardous materials and recycling in the electronics industry

-        Reliability aspects of new materials and technologies in the electronics industry

-        Production issues with special attention on lead-free soldering production

-        Recycling and other environmental considerations in the electronics industry

The key topics will be presented by eminent experts in the above-mentioned fields. The speakers, from different European research organisations, are:

-        Prof. Michael Pecht, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

-        Janez Renko, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

-        Dr. Krystyna Bukat and Dr. Grazyna Koziol, Tele and Radio Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

-        Dr. Karl Heinz Zuber, Fraunhofer Institute FhG-IZM, Berlin, Germany

-        Prof. Zdzislaw Drozd, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

-        Prof. Dr. Pavel Mach, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Contact person for the Workshop on Green Electronics
Darko Belavič
HIPOT-RR, d.o.o.
c/o Jožef Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel. +386 (0)1 4773479
fax. +386 (0)1 477322
email: darko.belavic@ijs.si