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The IEEE Nanotechnology News November 2003 Volume 1, Number 4
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The IEEE Nanotechnology News. News and information
for the worldwide Nanotechnology community.
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Editorial
(1) I had the good fortune of being asked to participate in the recent
“Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond Workshop”
Technical Highlights
(2) Your submissions welcomed
Conference Announcements
(3) See our list of nanotechnology conferences.
People
(4) Your submissions welcomed
Job Openings
(5)Your submissions welcomed
Miscellaneous
(6) Submissions request: The IEEE Nanotechnology community has indicated an
appreciation of this newsletter where useful information can be shared.
(7) Read the Wave!
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(1) I had the good fortune of being asked to participate in the recent “Silicon Nanoelectronics
and Beyond Workshop” held in Portland, Oregon on October 29-30. This workshop was
sponsored by Intel and SRC, and was attended by a variety of industry and academic
nanotechnologists, as well as representatives from NSF and other government agencies.
Many of the attendees were among the highest level administrators in their organizations.
I found several issues to be of significant relevance to the IEEE nanotechnology community.
First, industry, in particular Intel, feels confident of pushing CMOS technology out to 10 nm gate
lengths, and possibly even to 1.5 nm! There was a level of confidence in this outcome that
was a bit startling. Given the recent announcement by Intel of solving the high-k gate dielectric
problem, we can merely conjecture what other advancements are waiting in the wings, as yet
unannounced. (There was not even a hint given at the workshop that this important
announcement was pending.)
Second, it was widely acknowledged that feature sizes aren’t everything. The game could be
called on account of power dissipation well before reaching the ultimate nanoscale limits.
Therefore, SRC and SIA are calling for a non-CMOS nanotechnology solution for replacing,
or significantly augmenting, CMOS by around 2020. There was not some kind of impractical
notion that by making such a pronouncement it would happen by shear force of will, which
has been a successful strategy of the ITRS for the last ten years or so. Rather, I felt that
what was implied was that some date had to be used, and if everything went perfectly, it
could happen in 15 or 20 years. Nevertheless, it seems rather optimistic given the realities
of incorporating even moderately mainstream processes into new products.
One problem in creating new directions is that the term “nanotechnology” is so broad that it
isn’t even clear yet what sort of nanotechnology would be relevant to CMOS. So, look for a
new section to the ITRS that will discuss competing nanotechnologies, and a first cut at putting
them in some kind of order. It was also acknowledged by SRC that this order is likely to change
as future developments occur. However, it is felt that some kind of priorities should be in place
in about 5 years.
The upshot of all this is that there seems to be a new attitude toward nonconventional
(vis-à-vis CMOS) nanotechnologies on the part of industry. There appeared to me to be a new
openness and acceptance of ideas, if not as they are then at least of their possibilities. In
“exchange” for this, the industry people would like researchers to be more mindful of the real
challenges and limitations of introducing new processes into a manufacturing environment.
In this regard, basic researchers and industry folk are finding new reasons to work together.
This is bound to be good for everyone involved.
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(2) Your submissions welcomed
------------ Conference Announcements -------------
Conference list
(3) http://www.nd.edu/~ntcnews/nanoconferences.html
Fourth IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology next August.
http://www.nano.ei.tum.de/ieeenano2004/ieeenano2004.htm
---------------------------- People --------------------------
(4) Your submissions welcomed
----------------------- Job Openings ----------------------
(5) Your submissions welcomed
----------------------- Miscellaneous ----------------------
(6) Submissions Request
The IEEE Nanotechnology community has indicated an appreciation of this newsletter where
useful information can be shared. In fact, the NTC Newsletter is receiving frequent requests for
new subscriptions. However, we are still in need of reader-supplied contributions, since the
goal of the newsletter is to represent information and perspectives from many different sources.
Please consider sending us your input in any of the newsletter categories.
We welcome your submissions and look forward to being able to share them with all of our
subscribers.
(7) Read the Wave!
Read news articles on Nano from around the world at http://www.nano-tsunami.com/
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Gary H. Bernstein
University of Notre Dame
bernstein.1@nd.edu
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