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The Role of
Nanotechnology in
the Semiconductor
Industry
Linda Rae, Keithley Instruments, Inc.
T
he nanotechnology industry is In addition, consumer products are be- is quickly hitting a brick wall with current
currently one of the most active coming more feature rich, with consumers methods. This is one area where we're seeing
and promising fields of technol- unwilling to pay substantially more for these significant research investment, for example,
ogy. While there's been discussion features. The challenge to device designers is with transistors on carbon nanotubes, new
of nanotech applied to everything to put more features into the same or smaller crossbar architectures, and nanowires, to
from clothing to golf balls, the main area of devices without significantly increa |