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Nanofabrication and Nanodevice Technologies (Technical Insights)Published by: Frost & Sullivan Published: Sep. 30, 2006 - 86 Pages Table of Contents
1. Scope and Methodology 1. Scope 2. Methodology 2. Introduction and Key Findings 1. Overview 2. Key Findings 2. Technology Development Viewpoint--Trends and Perspectives 1. Technology Primer 1. What is Self-Assembly? 2. Why Is It of Interest?--Unearthing Technology's Potential 2. Assessment of Technology Development 1. Self-Assembly Research and Development--Objectives and Technology Dependencies 2. Innovation Snapshot--Patterns and Trends in Ongoing R&D Efforts 3. Key Technology Trends 3. Analysis of Stakeholders--Their Role in Development and Funding 1. Public Sector--The Government 2. Private Sector--The Commercial Participants 3. Academic Sector--The Universities 3. Analysis of Technology Application and Adoption 1. Applications Assessment 1. Applications Development in the Near Term--Five to Ten Years 2. Applications Development in the Medium to Long Term--Ten to Twenty Years 2. Factors Influencing Technology Adoption 1. Drivers 2. Challenges 4. The Innovation Frontier--A Selective Profile of Research and Development Efforts 1. Self-Assembly-Based Nanofabrication--Ongoing Global Research 1. 3D Devices and Structures through ‘Fold-Up’ Self-Assembly--USA 2. Array Patterning through Self-Assembly--USA 3. Nanotubes Self-Assemble by Designs--Japan 4. Nonregular Self-Assembly Enhances Feature Complexity in Electronic Devices--USA 5. Reliability of Quantum Dot Self-Assembly Processes Improves--USA 6. Self-Assembly by Design--USA 7. DNA Tetrahedra--Europe 2. Self-Assembled Devices--Ongoing Global Developments 1. DNA-Based Nanoelectronic Devices for Use in Computers--USA 2. Germanium Quantum Dots for Computing Devices--USA 3. Magnetic DNA-Coated Wires for Memory Devices--USA 4. Nanoscale Batteries Built by Self-Assembling Viruses--USA 5. Research into Fault Tolerance in Self-Assembled Memory Devices--USA 6. Rewritable Paper--Japan 7. Self-Assembled Muscle MEMS--USA 8. Self-Assembled Nanotubes for Biocide--USA 9. Sensor Uses Self-Assembled Material for Alcohol Detection--Spain 5. Selected Patents and Database of Key Participants 1. Selected Patents 1. Key Patents Related to this Sector 2. Other Related Patents 2. Database of Key Developers 1. Academic Contacts 2. Other Research Contacts 6. Decision Support Database 1. Database Tables 1. Semiconductor Market and Semiconductor Equipment Market--World (1999 to 2006) 2. Electronic Data Processing Contribution to Electronics Industry--World (1999 to 2006) 3. Electronic Components Contribution to Electronics Industry--World (1999 to 2006) 4. Medical and Industrial Equipment Contribution to Electronics Industry--World (1999 to 2006) 5. Military R&D Expenditure--World (1999 to 2004) AbstractResearch OverviewThis Frost & Sullivan research service titled Nanofabrication and Nanodevice Technologies provides an analysis of the technical developments surrounding self-assembly technology development and adoption through key drivers, challenges, trends, and related analysis to identify the streams and objectives of self-assembly development. Market Sectors Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
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Although at the Early Stages, Nanodevice Technologies Show Immense Potential for Growth Self-assembly- a bottom-up approach to structure and device fabrication, which means that it involves the assembly of molecules into structures- is a long-range technology by most accounts. Commercial timeframes would typically be measured in decades. However, self-assembly remains a technology of promise, offering capabilities that conventional technology would find hard to match. "It is also an area of intense research interest, not only among the universities and research institutions working on R&D, but also for some of the biggest names in the electronics industry," according to the analyst. "It may not affect the commercial technology landscape tomorrow, or next week- but it remains of long-term importance to many applications." The nature of, and work done by key technology development stakeholders is reflective and indicative of this fact. All major technology developers in self-assembly are, almost without exception, heavily invested in basic or applied research. University research efforts are scattered out across the first half of the classic technology development cycle, examining material properties, self-assembly mechanisms, the development of basic nanostructures, and, in some cases, actual device development. Development of Basic Self-assembly Process to Aid Further Advancement of the Technology One clearly identified stream of technology development effort focuses on the development of basic self-assembly techniques. While self-assembly is present almost everywhere in nature, and even though biomimetic processes have been developed that are capable of replicating these natural processes, few such experiments show any commercial promise that takes them beyond the laboratory. The structures--the end result of these processes--that are believed to show commercial promise also vary greatly, which creates a demand for diversified assembly processes. Together, these factors ensure that research continues in creating, not even basic structures, but the methods that create those structures. A variety of these systems have been developed. Many of these seek to utilize DNA as a mechanism for self-assembly, using the famed pairing of nucleotides to promote the process. Examples include work done by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, led by Paul Nealey, who have discovered a way by which the self-assembly process can be modified to direct materials that would typically settle into regular arrays into more irregular structures. Salvatore Torquato’s team has worked in a very important stream of research, the Holy Grail of nanomaterials R&D: an approach for guiding self-assembly to a desired outcome, rather than relying on existing natural interactions between molecules for control--essentially, self-assembly by design. The Whitesides group at Harvard has developed a method by which folding structures can be created: self-assembling three-dimensional surfaces guided by magnetism. Get Full Details About This Report >> |
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