AVS 49th International Symposium
    Manufacturing Science and Technology Tuesday Sessions
       Session MS-TuM

Invited Paper MS-TuM5
Nanoelectronics - Feast or Famine?

Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 9:40 am, Room C-109

Session: Beyond Planar CMOS: Manufacturing Issues
Presenter: J.A. Hutchby, Semiconductor Research Corporation
Authors: J.A. Hutchby, Semiconductor Research Corporation
V. Zhirnov, Semiconductor Research Corporation
G. Bourianoff, Semiconductor Research Corporation
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Many concepts have been proposed to provide new means for information processing technologies as the industry standard CMOS MOSFET approaches its fundamental limits of scaling. Some concepts propose use of a particular nanotechnology to replicate the function of a silicon transistor albeit on a much smaller scale. Much of the known circuit and system architecture concepts may well be applicable in this new paradigm. Examples of this category include carbon nanotubes and molecular electronics. Other concepts(e.g. Quantum Computing and Quantum Cellular Automata) offer completely new paradigms for information processing, and will require new concepts and infrastructure to architect the desired systems functions. In this paper, the authors will discuss some of the more advanced candidates for new information processingparadigms and will show one concept for there possible relationship to silicon CMOS at the end of the current SIA Roadmap.