Nanophotonics in Printing and Packaging: Formation and Processing of Digital and Analog Images

摘要

The current stage of scientific and technical progress is determined by advances in nanosciences and nanotechnologies and their potential. The tendency toward the progressively deepening miniaturization of semiconductor devices was first noted in the 1960s when G. Moore, the Fairchild Semiconductor director by that time, formulated the statement known today as Moore’s law: the number of transistors (and, hence, the amount of information) that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every one and half–two years. On the Moore diagram of the early 1980s, the minimal size of elements of electronic devices was expected to be less than 0.1 μ m (100 nm) by 2005–2010. This implied that elements of electronic and photonic devices should have dimensions in the nanometer range.