Title :
Molecular electronics: from devices and interconnect to circuits and architecture
Author :
Stan, Mircea R. ; Franzon, Paul D. ; Goldstein, Seth Copen ; Lach, John C. ; Ziegler, Matthew M.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
fDate :
11/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
As the dominating CMOS technology is fast approaching a "brick wall," new opportunities arise for competing solutions. Nanoelectronics has achieved several breakthroughs lately and promises to overcome many of the limitations intrinsic to current semiconductor approaches. Most of the results in this area reported until now focus on devices and interconnect; this work goes several steps further and presents issues related to circuits and architecture. Based on proposed nanoscale interconnect and device structures, we explore the design space available to the nanoelectronic circuit designer and system architect.
Keywords :
arrays; digital integrated circuits; fault tolerance; molecular electronics; nanoelectronics; nanotubes; resonant tunnelling diodes; reviews; RTD circuits; array-based architectures; crossbar architectures; defect tolerance; design space; molecular electronics; nanocircuits; nanodevices; nanoscale interconnect structures; CMOS technology; Chemical and biological sensors; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Cost function; Integrated circuit interconnections; Molecular electronics; Nanobioscience; Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnology;
Journal_Title :
Proceedings of the IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPROC.2003.818327