Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Nanoelectronic Materials
  • Inorganic Semiconductors
  • Metals and Dielectrics
  • Organic Electronic Materials
  • Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Inks
  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • Graphene
  • Molecular Nanoelectronic Materials
  • Functional Substrates
• 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
  • Langmuir-Blodgett Technique
  • Molecular Machines
• Nanoelectronic Building Blocks, Structures, and Devices
  • Solid-State Quantum-Effect Nanostructures
  • Hybrid Nanoelectronic Devices
• The ITRS 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
  • Regional Development Initiatives
• Regulatory Factors
  • Health and Environmental Legislation for Nanoparticles
  • Ethical and Social Approval

Areas to Monitor

• Oil Prices
• Climate Change
• Role of Government Funding
• Alternative Energy
• IT Demand
• Moore's Law
• Processor Architecture and Multicores
• Packaging and Integration Technologies
• Design Tools
• Nanomanufacturing Methods
• Manufacturing Costs
• Replicators

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
  • Industry Structure
  • PRAM
  • MRAM and Spin-Transfer-Torque Memory
• CNT Interconnects
• Fuel Cells
• Batteries
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities
• Printed Batteries
• Ultracapacitors
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities
• Thermoelectrics
• Quantum Dots for Biomedical Labeling
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities
• Detection Systems for Biomedicine
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities
• Solar Cells
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities
  • CIGS Solar Cells
  • Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
  • Organic Solar Cells
• LEDs and LED Lighting
• Sensors
  • Nanoparticle-Based Gas Sensors
  • Magnetic-Field Sensors and Spin Valves
  • Microcantilever/Nanocantilever Sensors
• Transparent Electrodes
• Telecom Components
• Single-Photon Emitters and Quantum Cryptography
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities
• Quantum Computing
• Object Identification
  • Industry Structure
  • Opportunities

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