Realizing stochastically assembled nanoarrays

Nanoarrays, crossbars composed of two orthogonal sets of coded parallel nanowires, are expected to play a central role in chips in the future. Given their small size, nanowires will be placed on a chip using chemical self-assembly, a stochastic process that cannot guarantee the identity or location of nanowires. A key challenge facing the use of crossbars will be controlling the uncertainty introduced by self-assembly. In this paper we explore architectural and manufacturing strategies to cope with this uncertainty. We also describe methods of analysis used to compare strategies.