Abstract
State of the art nanotechnology appears like a confusing patchwork of rather diverse approaches to manipulate matter at the nanometer scale. However, there are strong economic and technological driving forces behind those developments. One key technology consists of a rather dramatic shrinking of integrated electronic devices towards the very size limits of nanotechnology, just to satisfy the growing demand for commonly available computing power. Furthermore, the corresponding step from microelectronics to nanoelectronics pushes another important technological sector, which aims at the development of novel optical devices, that ought to furnish the bandwidth and speed to ship the plethora of accumulating processing bits. In the following, we point out some of the basic technological challenges involved, and present a selection of experimental and numerical approaches that aim at the development of novel types of optoelectronic nanodevices.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Alduino, A., Paniccia, M.: Wiring electronics with light. Nature Photonics 1, 153 (2007)
Avouris, P.: Carbon nanotube electronics and photonics. Physics Today 62, 34 (2009)
Barnes, W., Dereux, A., Ebbesen, T.: Surface plasmon subwavelength optics. Nature 424, 824 (2003)
Born, M., Wolf, E.: Principles of Optics, 6th Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1998)
Boustani, I.: Systematic ab initio investigation of bare boron clusters: Determination of the geometry and the electronic structure of b n (n=2-14). Phys. Rev. B 55, 16,426 (1997)
Boustani, I., Quandt, A., Hernandez, E., Rubio, A.: New boron based nanostructured materials. J. Chem. Phys. 110, 3176 (1999)
Chiasera, A., Belli, R., Bhaktha, S., Chiappini, A., Ferrari, M., Jestin, Y., Moser, E., Righini, G., Tosello, C.: High quality factor er3 + -activated dielectric microcavity fabricated by rf sputtering. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 171,910–1 (2006)
Chutinan, A., John, S.: Light localization for broadband integrated optics in three dimensions. Phys. Rev. B 72, 161,316–1 (2005)
Ciuparu, D., Klie, R.F., Zhu, Y., Pfefferle, L.: Synthesis of pure boron single-wall nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 3967 (2004)
Dresselhaus, M.S., Dresselhaus, G., Eklund, P.: Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes. Academic Press, San Diego (1996)
Drexler, K.: Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Reprint). Anchor Books, New York (1987)
Geim, A.K., Kim, P.: Carbon wonderland. Sci. Am. 298, 68 (2008)
Hernandez, E., Ordejon, P., Boustani, I., Rubio, A., Alonso, J.A.: Tight binding molecular dynamics studies of boron assisted nanotube growth. J. Chem. Phys. 113, 3814 (2000)
Hey, A.: Feynman and Computation. Perseus Books, Cambridge (1999)
Ieong, M., Doris, B., Kedzierski, J., Rim, K., Yang, M.: Silicon device scaling to the sub-10-nm regime. Science 306, 2057 (2004)
Ito, T., Okazaki, S.: Pushing the limits of lithography. Nature 406, 1027 (2000)
Jinno, M., Miyamoto, Y., Hibino, Y.: Optical-transport networks in 2015. Nature Photonics 1, 157 (2007)
Joannopoulos, J., Johnson, S., Winn, J., Meade, R.: Photonic Crystals, 2nd Ed. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2008)
John, S.: Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2486 (1987)
Kunstmann, J., Quandt, A.: Nanotubular boron-carbon heterojunctions. J. Chem. Phys. 121, 10,680 (2004)
Kunstmann, J., Quandt, A.: Broad boron sheets and boron nanotubes: an ab initio study of structural, electronic and mechanical properties. Phys. Rev. B 47, 035,413 (2006)
Kunstmann, J., Quandt, A., Boustani, I.: An approach to control the radius and the chirality of nanotubes. Nanotechnology 18, 155,703 (2007)
Lundstrom, M.: Moore’s law forever? Science 299, 210 (2003)
Maier, S., Atwater, H.: Plasmonics: Localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures. J. Appl. Phys. 98, 011,101 (2005)
Mead, C.: Scaling of mos technology to submicrometer feature sizes. J. VLSI Sig. Proc. 8, 9 (1994)
Mead, C., Conway, L.: Introduction to VLSI Systems. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1980)
Meindl, J., Chen, Q., Davis, J.: Limits on silicon nanoelectronics for terascale integration. Science 293, 2044 (2001)
Miller, D.: Rationale and challenges for optical interconnects to electronic chips. Proceedings of the IEEE 88, 728 (2000)
Miyai, E., Sakai, K., Okano, T., Kunishi, W., Ohnishi, D., Noda, S.: Photonics: Lasers producting taylored beams. Nature 441, 946 (2006)
Nakada, K., Fujita, M., Dresselhaus, G., Dresselhaus, M.S.: Edge states in graphene ribbons: Nanometer size effect and edge shape dependence. Phys. Rev. B 54, 17,954 (1996)
Novoselov, K., Geim, A.K., Mozorov, S.V., Jiang, D., Zhang, Y., Dubonos, S.V., Grigorieva, I.V., Firsov, A.A.: Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films. Science 306, 666 (2004)
Ozbay, E.: Plasmonics: Merging photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions. Science 311, 189 (2006)
Pauling, L.: Nature of the Chemical Bond. Cornell University Press, Ithaca (1960)
Payne, M., Teter, M., Allan, D., Arias, T., Joannopoulos, J.: Iterative minimization techniques for ab initio total-energy calculations: molecular dynamics and conjugate gradients. Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 1045 (1992)
Peercy, P.: The drive to miniaturization. Nature 406, 1023 (2000)
Quandt, A., Boustani, I.: Boron nanotubes. ChemPhysChem 6, 2001 (2005)
Quandt, A., Ferrari, M.: Low dimensional composite nanomaterials: Theory and applications. Adv. Sci. and Tech. 55, 74 (2008)
Quandt, A., Özdoğan, C., Kunstmann, J., Fehske, H.: Functionalizing graphene by embedded boron clusters. Nanotechnology 19, 335,707 (2008)
Saleh, B., Teich, M.: Fundamentals of Photonics, 2nd Ed. Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken (2007)
Tang, H., Ismail-Beigi, S.: Novel precursor for boron nanotubes: the competition of two-center and three-center bonding in boron sheets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 115,501 (2007)
Totzeck, M., Ulrich, W., Göhnermeier, A., Kaiser, W.: Semiconductor fabrication: Pushing deep ultraviolet lithography to its limits. Nature Photonics 1, 629 (2007)
Vlasov, Y., Bo, X., Sturm, J., Norris, D.: On-chip natural assembly of silicon photonic bandgap crystals. Nature 414, 289 (2001)
Woodcroft, B.: The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. Taylor Walton and Maberly, London (1851)
Yablonovitch, E.: Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059 (1987)
Yablonovitch, E.: Photonic band-gap structures. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 283 (1999)
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge significant and stimulating scientific discussion with Cem Özdoğan (Çankaya) and Jens Kunstmann (Dresden) about basic properties of boron-carbon nanomaterials, and the invaluable support of Alexander Leymann (Greifswald) for modeling of photonic structures. This research was performed in the framework of the project COST MP0702: Towards Functional Sub-Wavelength Photonic Structures.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Quandt, A., Ferrari, M., Righini, G.C. (2010). Towards Integrated Nanoelectronic and Photonic Devices. In: Baleanu, D., Guvenc, Z., Machado, J. (eds) New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3293-5_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3293-5_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-481-3292-8
Online ISBN: 978-90-481-3293-5
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)