ACCEPTED AUTHOR GUIDELINES

ONLINE SUBMISSION

Author Information,Final Papers,Presentation Materials, and Copyright Form

IMPORTANT DATE

Notification of Paper Acceptance* Friday, July 16, 2010
Confirmation due for participation in ISSM Friday, July 23, 2010
Speaker Registration Due (All speakerincluding interactive poster session required) Friday, August 27 2010
Final paper for ISSM proceedings andCD-ROM due / PowerPoint File forCD-ROM due (PowerPoint presentationdata in CD is distributed ONLY toconference participants) Friday, September 10, 2010
Copyright Form due Friday, September 10, 2010
Final PowerPoint File for Presentation due Tuesday, October 12, 2010
ISSM 2010 Monday, October 18-Wednesday October 20, 2010

* To confirm the result of acceptance:
Visit https://www.semiconductorportal.com/issm/2010/result.cfm with using your ID and password which were informed to you at your abstract submission. The result of abstract selection will be available on July 16, 2010.

1. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of ISSM 2010 is English.
The translation service will not be provided.

2. PRESENTATION LENGTH

1) FOR ORAL SESSION AUTHORS
The total presentation length is 20 minutes including 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and answers. There will be author's interview period scheduled after the session of the presentation.

2) FOR INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION AUTHORS
ISSM "Interactive Poster Session" combines the regular poster session with 3-minute presentation to the entire audience. There will be "NO" question & answer period for the 3-minute talk. The presentation material of the interactive session authors is limited to FOUR slides at maximum including one cover sheet.

3. PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The detail program schedule will be available by middle August.
http://www.semiconportal.com/issm/2010/

Outline of ISSM 2010

Monday, October 18 Morning Opening/Keynote session
Afternoon Oral session
Interactive/ Poster session
Networking session
Evening ISSM reception
Tuesday, October 19 Morning Keynote session
Afternoon Oral session
Interactive/ Poster session
Wednesday, October 20 Morning Keynote session
Afternoon Oral session

4. INFORMATION CHANGE

All authors are requested to update the information on the title of presentation, speaker, and contact at the ISSM website with using your ID and password which were informed to you at your submission of abstract. In case that you miss you ID and password, contact ISSM 2010 Japan Office at issm_2010@semiconportal.com

5. SPEAKER REGISTRATION DUE - Friday, August 27, 2010

Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested
All speakers must register for the conference before Friday, August 27, 2010. Further information on registration will be sent to the speakers by mid August and will be put on the ISSM website

6. FINAL PAPER DUE - Friday, September 10, 2010

Final paper word template
Both oral speaker and interactive poster speaker are requested
All papers will be published in black and white in the Conference Proceedings and full color in the CD-ROM, both of which will be available at the Symposium. Please plan to submit your final paper, formatted to IEEE specifications, by September 10. Each paper must be no longer than four pages (A4 size) and be prepared using Microsoft Word. Please have your paper proofread by several people before you submit it. Click here for a template for formatting your final paper. Once your paper is proofread and all information is correct, please upload your paper at the ISSM website with using your ID and password. In case the file is in excess of 2MB, it needs to be compressed into a ZIP file.

Author Biography - Please include a brief one-paragraph author biography at the end of the paper. This will allow the session chairs to properly introduce you, before you give your presentation.

7. POWER POINT FILE FOR DISTRIBUTION DUE (PowerPoint presentation will be distributed in ISSM 2010 CD-ROM ONLY to participants in ISSM 2010) - Friday, September 10, 2010

Powerpoint presentation template
Both oral speakers and interactive speakers are requested
Power point presentation for distribution will be included in CD-ROM in full color with Final Paper after converting to PDF.
All speakers are requested to use the template.
For Oral speaker : maximum 10pages
For Interactive poster speaker : maximum 4pages
In case the file is in excess of 2MB, it needs to be compressed into a ZIP file.
Please use the same template as the Presentation template.

For Power Point File for Distribution,
the file does not have to be the same as the one for presentation(due:Oct 12)
you can remove the slide which contains proprietary information.

8. COPY RIGHT FORM DUE - Friday, September 10, 2010

Copyright form
Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested to submit
Click here to download the copyright form.
Print out Copyright form, fill in a blank, covert it into PDF file and submit through website. In case you have any problem on file conversion, fax to +81-3560-3566.
Please return by September 10, 2010.

9. POWERPOINT PRESENTATION DUE - Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Powerpoint presentation template
Both oral speaker and interactive speaker are requested to submit
To ensure that all presentations are visually consistent, click here for PowerPoint template. Your presentation must be received by October 12. Once it has been proofread, please upload your presentation material at the ISSM website with using your password and ID same as submission of the paper.
Our online submission system for final paper and presentation materials accepts only for the electronic data files up to 2MB each. If your final paper or presentation material size is over 2MB, please compress your file into zip file. If your final paper or presentation material size is over 2MB, please compress your file into zip file.
All speakers are requested to use the template.
For Oral speaker : maximum 10pages
For Interactive poster speaker : maximum 4pages
Even if the actual presentation is the same as the presentation for ISSM Proceedings CD-ROM, still all authors are requested to submit the final presentation materials.

10. POSTER FORMAT FOR INTERACTIVE SESSION AUTHORS

Click here for the template for poster of interactive sessions.

For further questions, please contact ISSM Japan Office at Semiconductor Portal: +81-3-3560-3565 or email issm_2010@semiconportal.com