Nanoelectronics, Circuits and Nanoprocessors

As electronic device features have been pushed into the deep sub-100-nm regime, conventional scaling strategies in the semiconductor industry have faced technological and economic challenges. Electronics obtained through the bottom-up approach of molecular-level control of material composition and structure may lead to devices and fabrication strategies as well as new architectures not readily accessible or even possible within the context of the top-down driven industry and manufacturing infrastructure. This chapter presents a summary of recent advances in basic nanoelectronics devices, simple circuits and nanoprocessors assembled by semiconductor NWs.

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