Future Trends in Microelectronics ─ From Nanophotonics to Sensors to Energy

In the summer of 2009, leading professionals from industry, government, and academia gathered for a free-spirited debate on the future trends in microelectronics. This volume represents the summary of their contributions. Providing a cohesive exploration and holistic vision of the field, it features thirty-four chapters from experts all over the world, in far-ranging disciplines within microelectronicsufrom energy (photovoltaic and otherwise) to semiconductor deviceubased remote sensing and beyond.

Through detailed examination of the current state of the field and the direction in which it is headed, the contributors answer such questions as:

What is the future beyond shrinking silicon devices and the field-effect transistor principle?

Are alternative materials, ranging from graphene to magnetic semiconductors to chalcogennides, likely to reach technological insertion?

Is there practicality in fashionable topics like quantum computing, synaptic computing, synaptic computing, spintronics, and superconducting computing?

What are the most attractive system applications of optoelectronic hybrids?

Are there green pastures beyond the traditional semiconductor technologies?

Is energy-related research likely to boost the prospects of the microelectronics industry?

By identifying the scenario for the future evolution of microelectronics, this title presents a tremendous opportunity for constructive action on behalf of microelectronics professionals; researchers in communications, solid state physics, electronics and materials science; government policymakers and planners; and investors and consultants. It offers both professionals and students an informed, broad, and forward-looking overview of the entire field.

Dr. Serge Luryi is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since 1998, Dr. Luryi has been Director of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Sensor Systems. He has published over 200 papers and has been awarded forty-seven U.S. patents.
Dr. Jimmy Xu is the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. '32 University Professor and Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University. Previously, he was the Nortel Chair in Emerging Technologies and James Ham Chair in Optoelectronics, as well as director of Nortel Institute for Telecommunications at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Alex Zaslavsky is Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University. He has published over eighty journal articles and book chapters, and coedited six books in the microelectronics field. Since 2003, he has been an editor of Solid-State Electronics: An International Journal