Silicon Nanoelectronics

Because the silicon process infrastructure is already in place and because of silicon's compatibility with current CMOS circuits, silicon nanodevices are positioned to become particularly important. Silicon Nanoelectronics examines recent developments of novel devices and materials that hold great promise for creating smaller and more powerful chips. Contributed by more than 20 leading researchers, the text offers extensive background information and considers issues such as quantum effects and ballistic transport and resonant tunneling in silicon nanotechnology. It also pays significant attention to the all-important silicon single electron transistors and the devices that utilize them.