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IEEE Completes Standards Roadmap for Emerging Nanoelectronic Applications

May 4, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS

 
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) completed its Nanoelectronics Standards Roadmap (NESR), which establishes a framework for creating standards to help industry transition electronic applications based on nanotechnology from the laboratory to commercial use.

The roadmap focuses on standards for nanomaterials and devices that promise to yield the highest value in the near-term, said the IEEE.

It also anticipates standards likely to be needed at higher levels of integration for functional blocks and applications.

In 2007, the roadmap recommends the initiation of five nanoelectronic standards: three for nanomaterials involving conductive interconnects, organic sensor structures and nano-dispersions and two for nano-devices involving nanoscale sensors and nanoscale emitting devices.

It also targets the start of seven nanomaterial standards and five nano-device standards in 2008.

The IEEE Nanoelectronic Standards Roadmapping Initiative, which began in early 2003, is co-chaired by Evelyn Hirt of Battelle and John Tucker of Keithley Instruments. Its members come from industry, government and academia and from many nations.

"The many individuals who worked on the roadmap have created a rational path for managing the development of nanoelectronic standards," said Edward Rashba, director, New Business Ventures. "Their vision will help industry realize the potential for nano-enabled electronic products in such fields as communications, information technology, biotechnology and optoelectronics.

"The standards identified in the roadmap are intended to foster industry's growth by enabling researchers to build on each other's findings, harmonize best practices and support manufacturers across the value chain from materials, processing and test equipment to subsystems and systems."

"If the industry concurs with the choice of the five nanoelectronic standards the roadmap targets to start in 2007, we'll begin work on them this summer or fall," said Rashba. "These standards will build on the nanoelectronic standards efforts already underway or completed at the IEEE."

One IEEE nanoelectronics standard, IEEE 1650 - Standard Test Methods for Measurement of Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes was completed. This document provides a common template for generating reproducible electrical data on nanotubes. Organizations worldwide have aligned their characterization methods with it, said the IEEE.

A second standard, IEEE P1690 - Standard Methods for Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes Used as Additives in Bulk Materials is underway.

To view and download the Nanoelectronics Standards Roadmap, go to http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/nano/07/Nano07.html.

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For additional information on the IEEE Nanoelectronic Standards Roadmapping Initiative, contact Cherry Tom at c.tom@ieee.org, (732) 465-5848.

Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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