Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek

✍ Scribed by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alex Zaslavsky

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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?

✦ Table of Contents

FUTURE TRENDS IN MICROELECTRONICS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1 PHYSICS: THE FOUNDATIONS......Page 20
Is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Really Possible?......Page 21
Quantum Computation – Future of Microelectronics?......Page 36
Semiconductor Spintronics: Progress and Challenges......Page 45
Towards Semiconductor Spin Logic......Page 58
Molecular Meso- and Nanodevices: Are the Molecules Conducting?......Page 68
The Problem of a Perfect Lens Made From a Slab With Negative Refraction......Page 78
Is There a Linewidth Theory for Semiconductor Lasers?......Page 85
Fermi Liquid Behavior of GaAs Quantum Wires......Page 94
2 BIOLOGY: WE ARE ALL ZOA......Page 106
Towards Molecular Medicine......Page 107
lnterfacing the Brain – With Microelectronics?......Page 118
Synthetic Biology: Synthesis and Modification of a Chemical Called Poliovirus......Page 130
Guided Evolution in Interacting Microchemostat Arrays for Optimization of Photobacterial Hydrogen Production......Page 139
Improvements in Light Emitters by Controlling Spontaneous Emission: From LEDs to Biochips......Page 152
3 ELECTRONICS: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS......Page 170
Nanomanufacturing Technology: Exa-Units at Nano-Dollars......Page 171
32 nm: Lithography at a Crossroad......Page 184
Physical Limits of Silicon CMOS: Real Showstopper or Wrong Problem?......Page 196
Will the Insulated Gate Transistor Concept Survive Next Decade?......Page 209
Scaling Limits of Silicon CMOS and Non-Silicon Opportunities......Page 220
Carbon-Nanotu be Solutions for the Post-CMOS-Scaling World......Page 229
Alternatives to Silicon: Will Our Best Be Anywhere Good Enough in Time?......Page 241
MRAM Downscaling Challenges......Page 248
Atomically Controlled Processing for Future Si-Based Devices......Page 263
Ultimate VLSI Clocking Using Passive Serial Distribution......Page 276
Origin of 1/f Noise in MOS Devices: Concluding a Noisy Debate......Page 294
Quasiballistic Transport in Nano-MOSFETs......Page 304
Absolute Negative Resistance in Ballistic Variable Threshold Field Effect Transistor......Page 313
Formation of Three-Dimensional SiGe Quantum Dot Crystals......Page 321
Robust Metallic Interconnects for Flexible Electronics and Bioelectronics......Page 331
4 PHOTONICS: LIGHT TO THE RESCUE......Page 344
Silicon Photonics – Optics to the Chip at Last?......Page 345
The Future of Single- to Multi-Band Detector Technologies......Page 352
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Real-Time T-Ray Imaging......Page 364
Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging......Page 376
Wavelength Tuning of Interband Cascade Lasers Based on the Stark Effect......Page 386
lntersubband Quantum-Box Lasers: An Update......Page 397
A New Class of Semiconductors Using Quantum Confinement of Silicon in a Dielectric Matrix......Page 408
Merging Nanoepitaxy and Nanophotonics......Page 418
Quantum Control of the Dynamics of a Semiconductor Quantum Well......Page 449
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 458
INDEX......Page 468