Nanoelectronics

Nanotechnology is often referred to as a general-purpose technology. That’s because in its mature form it will have significant impact on almost all industries and all areas of society. It offers better built, longer lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for the home, for communications, for medicine, for transportation, for agriculture, and for industry in general. It is sometimes seen as “the next industrial revolution”. It is a revolutionary, transformative and powerful technology. Nanoelectronics is a developing field in which circuitry is composed of nanometer sized electronic components. Yet it’s widely believed that in a decade or so, siliconbased circuitry will have been shrunk as small as is physically possible. And so the search is on for alternative materials from which nanoscale circuits can be constructed. Scientists who work in these fields aim to design and build new types of computers in which the nanosized entities lie at the heart of logic circuits. This book on Nanoelectronics and Nanooptics is a topic that’s attracting a lot of interest in scientific and nonscientific corners alike. Researchers are driven to explore the field because further miniaturizing today’s small electronic circuits will lead to faster, more sophisticated, and portable devices. As you will see in this volume, nanoelectronics also encompasses what is known as molecular electronics, which uses individual molecules in electronics. The volume enables readers to better understand drivers and demand patterns for nanoelectronics and nano-optical products, such as the trend in computing, communications, optical satellite telecommunications or sensor technology and IT.