Molecular electronics: from devices and interconnect to circuits and architecture

As the dominating CMOS technology is fast approaching a "brick wall," new opportunities arise for competing solutions. Nanoelectronics has achieved several breakthroughs lately and promises to overcome many of the limitations intrinsic to current semiconductor approaches. Most of the resul...

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Published in:Proceedings of the IEEE 2003-11, Vol.91 (11), p.1940-1957
Main Authors: Stan, M.R., Franzon, P.D., Goldstein, S.C., Lach, J.C., Ziegler, M.M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Chemical and biological sensors
Circuit simulation
Circuit synthesis
Circuits
CMOS technology
Cost function
Devices
Integrated circuit interconnections
Molecular electronics
Nanobioscience
Nanocomposites
Nanoelectronics
Nanostructure
Nanotechnology
Semiconductors
Walls
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Summary:As the dominating CMOS technology is fast approaching a "brick wall," new opportunities arise for competing solutions. Nanoelectronics has achieved several breakthroughs lately and promises to overcome many of the limitations intrinsic to current semiconductor approaches. Most of the results in this area reported until now focus on devices and interconnect; this work goes several steps further and presents issues related to circuits and architecture. Based on proposed nanoscale interconnect and device structures, we explore the design space available to the nanoelectronic circuit designer and system architect.
ISSN:0018-9219
1558-2256
DOI:10.1109/JPROC.2003.818327