Future Trends in Microelectronics: From Nanophotonics to Sensors to Energy

Part III

Physics, Biology, and Other Sister Sciences

3 Physics, Biology, and Other Sister Sciences

While fashionable trends like quantum computing and spintronics have always been subjected to critical examinations at the FTM meetings, they also continued to enjoy insightful analyses of effects that can be created or harvested based on fundamental physics.

While technological limits of proposals of using spin and quantum bits for computing were further revealed, fundamental phenomena such as the spin Hall effect, and long spin coherence length in silicon, and biological processes of memory allocation and recall at the cellular level received renewed attention.

In this part of the volume, participants also address new systems such as graphene and self-assembled nanostructures.

Contributors

3.1    M. I. Dyakonov

3.2    W. E. van den Berg and S. A. Kushner

3.3    V. Shelukhin, M. Karpovski, A. Palevski, J. Xia, A. Kapitulnik, and A. Tsukernik

3.4    V. Sverdlov, O. Baumgartner, T. Windbacher, and S. Selberherr

3.5    V. Ryzhii, M. Ryzhii, A. Satou, N. Ryabova, T. Otsuji, V. Mitin, F. T. Vasko, A. A. Dubinov, V. Y. Aleshkin, and M. S. Shur

3.6    R. L. Williams, D. Dalacu, M. E. Reimer, К. Mnaymneh, V. Sazonova, P. J. Poole, G. С. Aers, R. Cheriton, S. Frédérick, D. Kim, J. Lapointe, P. Hawrylak, and M. Korkusiński