Future Trends in Microelectronics

Preface

S. Luryi, J. M. Xu and A. Zaslavsky

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA

School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

This book is a brainchild of the eighth workshop in the Future Trends in Microelectronics series (FTM-8). The first of the FTM conferences, “Reflections on the Road to Nanotechnology,” had gathered in 1995 on Ile de Bendor, a beautiful little French Mediterranean island.¹ The second FTM, “Off the Beaten Path,” took place in 1998 on a larger island in the same area, Ile des Embiez.² Instead of going to a still larger island, the third FTM, “The Nano Millennium,” went back to its origins on Ile de Bendor in 2001.³ As if to compensate for small size of Bendor, the fourth FTM, “The Nano, the Giga, the Ultra, and the Bio,” took place on the biggest French Mediterranean island of them all, Corsica.⁴ Normally, the FTM workshops gather every 3 years; however, the FTM-4 was held 1 year ahead of the usual schedule, in the summer of 2003, as a one-time exception. Continuing its inexorable motion eastward, the fifth FTM workshop, “Up the Nano Creek,” had convened on Crete, Greece, in June of 2006.⁵ The inexorable motion was then interrupted to produce a semblance of a random walk in the Mediterranean and the FTM-6 “Unmapped Roads” went to the Italian island of Sardinia (June 2009).⁶ Then, FTM-7, “Into the Cross Currents” returned to our earlier venue on Corsica (June 2012).⁷