Department   "MICRO- AND ACOUSTOELECTRONICS"       Head:  Prof. E. Atanassova, D.Sc. E-mail: elenada@issp.bas.bg Phone: (+359 2) 9795 742        The department performs fundamental and application oriented research in the following areas:     Thin and ultrathin dielectric films (including high-k dielectrics), and semiconductor films for nanoscale integrated circuits: logic (MOSFETs), dynamic memories (DRAMs) and nonvolatile memories (NVMs)) Solid-state microsensors based on Silicon microelectronics New materials, technologies as well as piezoresonance structures for sensors and biocomposite applications Applications of surface transverse waves (STW), Rayleigh surface acoustic waves (RSAW) and bulk acoustic waves (BAW) in low-noise microwave oscillators, communications and sensor systems