MBE: on the light side

The UCSB Santa Barbara location suited the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy conference, with its relaxed, close-knit community. Sitting outside the amiably small airport, waiting to depart, after the conference, Ravi Droopad, Distinguished Member of Freescale Semiconductor technical staff reflected that NAMBE had been workshops and changed considerably, with the 2005 meeting, unlike earlier ones, showing in its attention to oxides and advanced material, the pressures now facing dead-end silicon.