TABLE OF CONTENTS Material science will do the heavy lifting required to meet the use-case demands of high performance at low power consumption. From thin body to Fin-FETs, heterogeneous materials including high-k metal gates, MEMS, nanoelectronics, quantum computing, and genetic engineering.
Nanotechnology involves the manipulation of materials at the nanometer or the atomic scale to create structures that have novel properties and functions because of their size, shape, or composition. Nanotechnology is a rapidly evolving field of science combining insights from physics, chemistry, biology, material science, and engineering. Nanotechnology combines existing knowledge and ongoing research at the nanometer level, with a specific emphasis on applying the science to engineering materials with enhanced and tailored properties [2].
Nanotechnology is not an industry, but a collection of nanoscale technologies that cut across a broad range of industries and applications. Indeed, nanoscale materials are already commercially used to enhance the properties of basic applications such as water repellant fabrics, antistatic mats, carbon fiber tennis rackets, and sunscreen. In addition, what we call 0.1 m or 100 nm technology in the manufacture of SoCs is an example of evolutionary nanotechnology that already exists.
The continual downscaling of conventional silicon technology has reached the nanometer scale, and promises to continue this trend down to the near-molecular level.
In addition, this development has provided the "eyes" and "hands" to "see" and to "manipulate" on the nanometer scale which, in turn, has enabled emerging nanoelectronic device technologies. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors...
