TABLE OF CONTENTS Mobile devices have become so rich with features that they are almost more than can be utilized effectively. However, this trend shows no sign of letting up. New features are being introduced to keep consumers buying the latest models and developing the demand for applications and content. Applications such as games, Internet access, m-commerce and content similar to mobile TV, HD video, and 3D audio delivered at broadband speeds.
A barrage of new technologies, currently foreign to the mobile device industry, is required to meet the ever-growing demand of the mobile device consumer. Gordon Moore' s law and its mapping into International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductors have been the most powerful drivers for the development of the microelectronic industry in order to converge with the consumer' s hunger for mobile devices.
Nanotechnology involves the knowledge and 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. Although nanotechnology is still nascent, it is nevertheless 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 engineer materials with enhanced and tailored properties.
Currently, nanotechnology applications are mainly in the form of relatively simple powders and coatings with various uses, as these are the main morphologies that current technologies allow synthesis on a large scale with uniform properties.
