Future Trends in Microelectronics

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

PhD Jimmy Xu is Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University and currently conducts research in quantum and molecular electronics and photonics. He has won numerous international awards for his research accomplishments, including the 1995 Steacie Prize of Canada. PhD Alex Zaslavsky is an associate professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University. He has won numerous awards, including the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. An Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Professor Zaslavsky has published over sixty papers and coedited several books on device physics and microelectronics.