Logic design for nanotechnology devices

A vision to the future...
Nanotechnology is one of the lastest challenging fields of recent research. The miniaturization of the silicon circuitry is going towards the physical limit of the molecular structure. Achieving of this limit is the border of the actual technology.

"Over the past forty years, a total of 1020 transistors have been made. But in a single drop of water there exist about 1021 molecules" [nanocell logic gates]. Drawing from this relation it is realistic to demonstrate the possibilities of nanochip technology.

Project:
The project flow through an analysis of the suspect able features on nano-chip technology, followed by a state of the art research. This base lines leads a walk through a path towards the definition of a possible implementation and the related challenges.

Author comment:
It's a short overview on the nowadays challenges on the nanotech cellular array technology.
...a window open on the next years researches...

Giorgio Brambilla

project report .pdf