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Lucas Zeer W
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BASc Candidate,
Nanotechnology Engineering
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Nano-electronics addresses the development of systems and materials that will enable the electronics industry to overcome current technological limits. Also part of this theme area is a new generation of electronics based on plastics, which is expected to create new markets with applications ranging from smart cards to tube-like computers.
The term covers a diverse set of devices and materials, with the common characteristic that they are so small that inter-atomic interactions and quantum mechanical properties need to be studied extensively. Some of these candidates include: hybrid molecular/semiconductor electronics, one dimensional nanotubes/nanowires, or advanced molecular electronics. Recent siliconCMOS technology generations, such as the 22nm node, are already within this regime. Nanoelectronics are sometimes considered as disruptive technology because present candidates are significantly different from traditional transistors.
The University of Waterloo is my current place of study. See that building in the picture there? That is the Quantum Nano Center where I take most of my classes...