Discover what's happening in nanoelectronics and where the field is heading with this volume. It stems from the proceedings of 'Up the Nano Creek', the fifth workshop in the 'Future Trends of Microelectronics' series, held in June of 2006. Preface / S. Luryi, J.M. Xu, A. Zalavsky -- Is fault-tolerant quantum computation really possible? / M.I. Dyakonov -- Quantum computation- future of microelectronics? / P. Hawrylak -- Semiconductor spintronics: progress and challenges / E.I. Rashba -- Towards semiconductor spin logic / I. Zutic, J. Fabian -- Molecular meso- and nanodevices: are the molecules conducting? / N.B. Zhitenev -- The problem of a perfect lens made from a slab with negative refraction / A.L. Efos -- Is there a linewidth theory for semiconductor lasers? / B. Spivak, S. Luryi -- Fermi liquid behavior of GaAs quantum wires / E. Levy ... [et al.] -- Towards molecular medicine / H. van Houten, H. Hofstraat -- Interfacing the brain- with microelectronics? / A.V. Nurmikko ... [et al.] -- Synthetic biology: synthesis and modification of a chemical called poliovirus / S. Mueller ... [et al.] -- Guided evolution in interfacing Microchemostat arrays for optimization of photobacterial hydrogen production / R.H. Austin, P. Galajda, J. Keymer -- Improvements in light emitters by controllong spontaneous emission: from LEDs to biochips / C. Weisbuch ... [et al.] -- Nanomanufacturing technology: exa-units at nano-dollars / M.R. Pinto -- 32 nm: Lithography at a crossroad / J.P.H. Benschop -- Physical limits of silicon CMOS: real showstopper or wrong problem? / M. Brillouet -- Will the insulated gate transistor concept survive next decade? / O. Engstrom -- Stealing limits of silicon CMOS and non-silicon opportunities / Y. Nishi -- Carbon-nanotube solutions for the post-CMOS-scaling world / P.M. Solomon -- Alternatives to silicon: will our best be anywhere good enough in time? / M.J. Kelly -- MRAM downscaling challenges / F. Arnaud d'Avitaya, V. Safarov, and A. Filipe -- Atomically controlled processing for future Si-based devices / J. Murota, M. Sakuraba, B. Tillack -- Ultimate VLSI clocking using passive serial distribution / M. Bamu, V. Prodanov -- Origin of 1/f noise in MOS devices: concluding a noisy debate / K. Akarvardar, S. Cristoloveamu, P. Gentil -- Quasiballistic transport in Nano-MOSFETs / E. Sangiorgi ... [et al.] -- Absolute negative resistance ballistic variable threshold field effect transistor / M.I. Dyakonov, M.S. Shur -- Formation of three-dimensional SiGe quantum dot crystals / C. Dais ... [et al.] -- Robust metallic interconnects for flexible electronics and bioelectronics / D.P. Wang ... [et al.] -- Silicon photonics-optics to the chip at last? / D.A.B. Miller -- The future of single- to multi-band detector technologies / M.N. Abedin ... [et al.] -- Terahertz quantum cascade lasers and real-time t-ray imaging / Q. Hu ... [et al.]