Nanoelectronics
Technology Map Detailed Contents
May 2021
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
- Nanoelectronic Materials
- Inorganic Semiconductors
- Conductors and Dielectrics
- Organic-Electronic Materials
- Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Inks
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Graphene
- Other Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
- Molecular Nanoelectronic Materials
- Fabrication Techniques
- Epitaxy
- Lithography
- Nanoimprint Lithography
- Nanoparticle Manufacture
- Printing Techniques
- Rapid Curing Techniques
- Other Atomic- and Molecular-Manufacturing Processes
- Self-Assembly Techniques
- Scanning-Probe Microscopy
- Molecular Machines
- Nanoelectronic Building Blocks, Structures, and Devices
- Solid-State Quantum-Effect Nanostructures
- Hybrid Nanoelectronic Devices
- The IRDS and CMOS Scaling
Commercial Development Parameters
- Demand Factors
- Energy Demand
- Pervasive Computing
- Rising Fab Costs
- General Constraints
- Long Time to Market
- Installed Base of Conventional Manufacturing
- Synergistic Technologies
- Analysis and Inspection Tools
- Biotech/Pharmaceutical Development
- Current IC Processing
- MEMS
- Competing Technologies
- MEMS
- Conventional Electronics Downscaling
- Required Resources
- Long-Term Research Funding
- Industry Consortia and Access to Expertise
- Regulatory Factors
- Health and Environmental Legislation for Nanoparticles
- Ethical and Social Approval
Areas to Monitor
- Regulatory Factors
- Packaging and Integration
- IRDS Road Maps
- Design Tools
- Green Energy
- IT Demand
- Climate Change
- Computing and Security
- Social Response
- Energy-Storage Performance and Costs
- Manufacturing Methods And Costs
Implications of Commercialization
- Tailored Monolithic Photonic and Electronic Components
- Ultra-Low-Power Devices
- Pervasive Computing
- Sensor Particles
- Health-care Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics
- Defense and Aerospace
- Implications by Sector
Opportunities
- Hard-Disk-Drive Storage
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Memory ICs
- PRAM
- MRAM and Spin-Transfer-Torque Memory
- CNT/Graphene Interconnects
- Fuel Cells
- Batteries
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Printed Batteries
- Ultracapacitors
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Thermoelectrics
- Solar Cells
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- CIGS Solar Cells
- Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells
- Organic and Metal-Organic-Framework Solar Cells
- QD LEDs and LED Lighting
- Sensors
- Nanoparticle-Based Gas Sensors
- Magnetic-Field Sensors and Spin Valves
- Microcantilever/Nanocantilever Sensors
- Transparent Electrodes
- Printed Metallic Electrodes
- Telecom Components
- Single-Photon Emitters and Quantum Cryptography
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
- Quantum Computing
- Object Identification
- Industry Structure
- Opportunities
Updates
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