Based on ideas and discussions arising from the third meeting in the Future Trends in Microelectronics (FTM) workshop series, held in the summer of 2001, Future Trends in Microelectronics provides a unique forum for today's leading experts in the semiconductor microelectronics field to discuss the future evolution of their profession.

Contents:

• Microelectronics Technology: Challenges in the 21^st Century
• Trends in Microlithography
• Strategies at the End of CMOS Scaling
• Driving Technology to Re-Engineer Telecommunications
• Rare Earth Metal Oxides as High-[kappa] Gate Insulators for Future
• Ultra-Thin Single- and Double-Gate MOSFETs for Future ULSI Applications: Measurements, Simulations, and Open Issues
• Future Silicon-on-Insulator MOSFETs: Chopped or Genetically Modified?
• Current Transport Models for Engineering Applications
• Advanced Physically Based Device Modeling for Gate Current and Hot-Carrier Phenomena in Scaled MOSFETs
• FLUX-1: Designing the First Generation of 20-GHz Superconductor RSFQ Microprocessors in 1.75-[mu]m Technology
• Silicon ... Beyond Silicon: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?
• Taming Tunneling
• Switching Device Based on a First-Order Metal-Insulator Transition Induced by an External Electric Field
• DNA Conduction Mechanisms and Engineering
• New Cold Cathode Paradigms for Vacuum Microelectronics Applications
• The Evolution of Optical Data Storage
• Long Wavelength Quantum Dot Lasers: From Promising to Unbeatable
• Temperature-Insensitive Semiconductor Lasers
• Trends in Semiconductor Laser Design: Balance Between Leakage, Gain and Loss in InGaAsP/InP Multiquantum Well Structures
• Terahertz Emitters Based on Intersubband Transitions
• The Future of Photovoltaics
• Infrared Detectors Based on InAs/GaSb Superlattices
• Solid State Lighting
• Reduction of Reflection Losses in Nonlinear Optical Crystals by Motheye Patterning
• Growth of III-Nitrides on Si(111) and GaN Templates: Challenges and Prospects
• Quantum Computing: A View from the Enemy Camp
• Entanglement of Quantum Gate Operations with Spin-Qubits in Quantum Dots
• Quantum Computation with Quasiparticles of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
• Photonics with Chips
• Metacrystals: Three Dimensional Systems of Interacting Quantum Dots
• InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well Microcavities with Spatially Controlled Carrier Injection

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