Abstract
This is a 2-part course. This tutorial is an introduction to the emerging opportunities in novel nanoscale devices and fabrication techniques, with particular emphasis on the implications for circuit and system designers. Topics covered include: fundamentals of device physics and materials science at the nanoscale, the ITRS Emerging Research Devices (memory & logic), nanotubes, nanowires, and nanoparticles, molecular devices, nanofabrication techniques and their impact on device layout. An assessment of the level of maturity for the proposed devices will be given. Part I provides an introduction, outlines key challenges, and covers ITRS emerging research devices, nanotubes and nanowires.

Educational Course Subject Areas
Circuits & Devices

Keywords
Buckyball ,  buckminsterfullerene ,  Carbon Nanotubes ,  carbon ,  CMOS ,  Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor ,  fullerenes ,  Molecular electronics ,  Molecular nanotechnology ,  Nano ,  Nanoelectromechanics (NEMS) ,  Nanoelectronics ,  Nanotechnology ,  Nanowire ,  Quantum dot ,  Self-Assembly