Future Trends in Microelectronics -

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Résumé :
Silicon technology has developed along virtually one single line: reducing the minimal size of lithographic features. But has this taken us to the point of diminishing returns? Are we now at a turning point in the logical evolution of microelectronics? Some believe that the semiconductor microelectronics industry has matured: the research game is over (comparisons with the steel industry are being made). Others believe that qualitative progress in hardware technology will come roaring back, based on innovative research. This debate, spirited as it is, is reflected in the pages of Future Trends in Microelectronics, where such questions are discussed. What kind of research does the silicon industry need to continue its expansion? What is the technical limit to shrinking Si devices? Is there any economic sense in pursuing this limit? What are the most attractive applications of optoelectronic hybrid systems? Are there any green pastures beyond the traditional semiconductor technologies? Identifying the scenario for the future evolution of microelectronics will present a tremendous opportunity for constructive action today.

Sommaire:
Usli Microelectronics: Challenges and Future Directions.- All that Glitters isn't Silicon Or Steel and Aluminum Re-Visited.- Si-Microelectronics: Perspectives, Risks, Opportunities, Challenges - 12 Statements.- Mass Production of Nanometre Devices.- Active Packaging: a New Fabrication Principle for High Performance Devices and Systems.- The Wiring Challenge: Complexity and Crowding.- Physics, Materials Science, and Trends in Microelectronics.- Growing up in the shadow of a Silicon 'older brother'; tales of an abusive childhood from GaAs and other new technology siblings!.- Comments on the National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.- System and Architecture Evolutions and Device Limitations.- Critique of reversible computation and other energy saving techniques in future computational systems.- Architectural Frontiers Enabled by High Connectivity Packaging.- Processor Performance Scaling.- Nano and Quantum Electronics.- Quantum Devices for Future CSICs.- Challenges and Trends for the Application of Quantum-Based Devices.- Wire and dot related devices.- Nonlithographic Fabrication and Physics of Nanowire and Nanodot Array Devices - Present and Future.- Taming Tunneling En Route to Mastering Mesoscopics.- Prospects for Quantum Dot Structures Applications in Electronics and Optoelectronics.- Architectures for Nano-scaled Devices.- Simulations and Modeling.- Simulating Electronic Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Monte Carlo Simulation for Reliability Physics Modeling and Prediction of Scaled (100 NM) Silicon MOSFET Devices.- New Materials and Device Technologies.- Superconductor-Semiconductor Devices.- Field Effect Transistor as Electronic Flute.- Heterodimensional Technology for Ultra Low Power Electronics.- Lateral Current Injection Lasers - ANew Enabling Technology for OEICs.- Wide Band Gap Semiconductors. Good Results and Great Expectations.- GaN and Related Compounds for Wide Bandgap Applications.- Prospects in Wide-Gap Semiconductor Lasers.- Organic Transistors - Present and Future.- Microcavity Emitters and Detectors.- Optical Amplification, Lasing and Wavelength Division Multiplexing Integrated in Glass Waveguides.- Systems and Circuits.- Ultimate Performance of Diode Lasers in Future High-Speed Optical Communication Systems.- Increased-functionality VLSI-compatible Devices Based on Backward-diode Floating-base Si/SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors.- Real-Space-Transfer of Electrons in the InGaAs/InAlAs System.- Charge Injection Transistor and Logic Elements in Si/Si1?xGex Heterostructures.- New Ideology of All-Optical Microwave Systems Based on the Use of Semiconductor Laser as a Down-Converter.- Microtechnology - Thermal Problems in Micromachines, ULSI and Microsensors Design.- Emerging and Future Intelligent Aviation and Automotive Applications of MIMO ASIM Microcommutators and ASIC Microcontrollers.- Trends in Thermal Management of Microcircuits.- Contributors.