Nanomanufacturing for electronics and energy: A perspective on challenges and opportunities

Advances in nanotechnology and translation of these advances to practical nanomanufacturing platforms, and processes have been the primary driver in advancing the march of Moore's law to ever shrinking device dimensions. Challenges with nanopatterning, introduction of new materials, interface and surface engineering are turning out to be fundamental issues of importance to understand and control to extend the semiconductor technology to sub -50 nm design rules. In this talk, we will detail the challenges and opportunities facing the electronics, and energy industries and how advances in nanomanufacturing may be able to provide innovative solutions to these problems.