Future Trends in Microelectronics Up the Nano Creek

by Luryi, Serge; Xu, Jimmy; Zaslavsky, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780470081464
• ISBN10: 0470081465
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-18
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press

Summary

In this book leading profesionals in the semiconductor microelectronics field discuss the future evolution of their profession. The following are some of the questions discussed: Does CMOS technology have a real problem? Do transistors have to be smaller or just better and made of better materials? What is to come after semiconductors? Superconductors or molecular conductors? Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography? Is it time for Optics to become a force in computer evolution? Quantum Computing, Spintronics? Where is the printable plastic electronics proposed 10 years ago? Are carbon nanotube transistors the CMOS of the future?

Author Biography

Serge Luryi, PhD, is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Jimmy Xu, PhD, is Charles C. Tillinghast University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University.

Alex Zaslavsky, PhD, is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Brown University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Physics: the Foundations1

Is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Really Possible

Quantum Computation ''Future of Microelectronics''

Semiconductor Spintronics: Progress and Challenges

Towards Semiconductor Spin Logic

Molecular Meso- and Nanodevices: Are the Molecules Conducting

The Problem of a Perfect Lens Made From a Slab: With Negative Refraction

Is There a Linewidth Theory for Semiconductor Lasers

Fermi Liquid Behavior of GaAs Quantum Wires

Biology: We are all Zoa

Towards Molecular Medicine

Interfacing the Brain ''With Microelectronics''

Synthetic Biology: Synthesis and Modification of a Chemical

Called Poliovirus

Guided Evolution in Interacting Microchemostat Arrays for

Optimization of Photobacterial Hydrogen Production

Improvements in Light Emitters by Controlling Spontaneous

Emission: From LEDs to Biochips

Electronics: Challenges and Solutions

Nanomanufacturing Technology: Exa-Units at Nano-Dollars

32 nm: Lithography at a Crossroad

Physical Limits of Silicon CMOS: Real Showstopper or Wrong Problem

Will the Insulated Gate Transistor Concept Survive Next Decade

Scaling Limits of Silicon CMOS and Non-Silicon Opportunities

Carbon-Nanotube Solutions for the Post-CMOS-Scaling World

Alternatives to Silicon: Will Our Best Be Anywhere Good Enough in Time

MRAM Downscaling Challenges

Atomically Controlled Processing for Future Si-Based Devices

Ultimate VLSI Clocking Using Passive Serial Distribution

Origin of 1/f Noise in MOS Devices: Concluding a Noisy Debate

Quasiballistic Transport in Nano-MOSFETs

Absolute Negative Resistance in Ballistic Variable Threshold Field Effect Transistor

Formation of Three-Dimensional SiGe Quantum Dot Crystals

Robust Metallic Interconnects for Flexible Electronics.and Bioelectronics

Photonics: Light to the Rescue325

Silicon Photonics ''Optics to the Chip at Last''

The Future of Single- to Multi-Band Detector Technologies

Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Real-Time T-Ray Imaging

Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging

Wavelength Tuning of Interband Cascade Lasers Based on the Stark Effect

Intersubband Quantum-Box Lasers: An Update

A New Class of Semiconductors Using Quantum Confinement of Silicon in a Dielectric Matrix

Merging Nanoepitaxy and Nanophotonics

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