AVS 52nd International Symposium
    Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Monday Sessions
       Session NS2-MoM

Invited Paper NS2-MoM5
Nanowires: From Biological Sensing to Computing and Much More!

Monday, October 31, 2005, 9:40 am, Room 210

Session: Nanowires
Presenter: C. Yang, Harvard University
Authors: C.M. Lieber, Harvard University
C. Yang, Harvard University
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Nanotechnology offers the promise of producing revolutionary advances in many areas, extending from biology and medicine to electronics and computing, and thus may impact in a substantial way our future lives. This presentation will provide an overview to the bottom-up paradigm for nanotechnology enabled using nanowire building blocks. First, the growth of nanowires, with composition controlled down to the atomic scale, their fundamental electronic properties, and parallel assembly and interconnection will be described. Second, nanowire devices configured as electrically-based biosensors will be discussed with an emphasis on disease detection and ultimate sensitivity limits of these nanodevices, as well as the potential linkage to hybrid information processing systems. Third, studies of nanowire based electronic circuits and nanocomputing systems will be critically examined. Lastly, challenges that must be met to realize these and other nanotechnologies in the future will be summarized.