Introduction to JPDC special issue on computing with future nanotechnology

摘要

One of the premier challenges for electronics research in the 21st Century is to build computing systems that can overcome the fundamental limitations of scaled CMOS. With significant advances in the physical sciences on the assembly, manipulation and characterization of nanoscale structures, the vision of achieving computation with emerging materials and technologies is closer to fruition. Consequently, there is a need for exploratory research into new types of nanosystems that can uniquely leverage such nanomaterials to achieve both new capabilities beyond, and orders of magnitude efficiency improvements over conventional CMOS-based solutions. At the same time, there is a need to make both CMOS and emerging technologies resilient to defects, imprecision in manufacturing processes and environmental factors.