The 2007 Strategic Update on:
Nanotechnology Applications in Electronics
Nanotechnology is pervading the entire Electronics industry with products is in the development pipeline across the entire field of electronics: high-density storage, sensors, batteries, displays and e-paper;
Nanotechnology is already or will become critical for many areas of semiconductor manufacturing:
Improvements of existing processes: from chemo-mechanical polishing to new lithography techniques;
Advanced inspection and metrology capabilities: from atomic force microscopy to new techniques for particle selection and detection;
New components, devices and paradigms: from interconnects for the 22 nm node to quantum computing;
New materials: from monolayer thin films and new transparent conducting materials to composites with improved thermal conductivity;