Nanopackaging: Nanotechnologies and electronics packaging

The importance of nanoelectronics and "electro- nanotechnologies" in the future is sufficiently well recognized to have become the subject of industrial and government policy roadmaps. Similarly, the academic world is responding with graduate level courses, (although with few textbooks so far.) As for electronics packaging, the field requires students to be "subject multilingual". Candidate next-generation nanoelectronics technologies, (e.g. single-electron transistors, quantum automata, molecular electronics, etc.,) are generally hyper-sensitive to dimensional change, if based on quantum-mechanical electron tunneling, and this is just one example of how appropriate packaging will be essential to the success or failure of these technologies. Packaging strategies must therefore be developed in parallel with the basic nanoelectronics device technologies in order to make informed decisions as to their commercial viabilities.