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Nanoelectronics is miniaturized microelectronics. Since the transition between microelectronics and nanoelectronics is fluid, structure widths of 100 nm and far below apply to nanoelectronics integrated circuits. Nanotechnology is concerned with material structures in molecular sizes of one millionth of a millimeter. Examples include nanowires and nanochips.

In addition to the examples mentioned, nanoelectronics also includes nanosensors and nanochips whose structure widths are so narrow that they can no longer be produced with classic DUV lithography because the wavelength of the light source is greater than the required structure width. For this reason, photolithography uses extremely short-wavelength UV light, Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography( EUVL).

Arrays of SnO2 thin film sensors. Photo: nanosystemtechnology.com

Arrays of SnO2 thin film sensors. Photo: nanosystemtechnology.com

Nanoelectronics uses conductors and semiconductors as basic elements. The conductors are formed by nanowires, and the logic gates are formed by semiconductor material, as is common in digital technology. These basic elements are used to create active nanocomponents, such as nanosensors or nanochips with structural widths of 45 nm and below. Due to these extremely narrow structure widths, nanochips with an integration density of Giga Large Scale Integration( GLSI) can be produced. Expressed in numbers, this means 100 million semiconductor elements on a nanochip of one square millimeter. One example of nanochips is Smart Dust.

Mu chips as Smart Dust from Hitachi

Mu chips as Smart Dust from Hitachi

Nanoelectronics has several advantages over microelectronics: the components are much more compact, have lower power consumption and higher switching speed.

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Englisch: nano electronics
Updated at: 25.01.2022
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Links: indium (In), deep ultraviolet (DUV), light, structure width, photolithography
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