Article | REF: NM550 V1

Forming nano-objects in crystal molds

Author: Chaouqi MISBAH

Publication date: October 10, 2005

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1. Introduction

Chaouqi MISBAH

CNRS Research Director

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Microelectronics is in a perpetual quest for miniaturization, with the aim of improving device performance while reducing manufacturing costs. This approach comes up against physical and technological limits when it comes to going below a dimension of a few tenths of a micrometer. Since the 1970s, the race towards miniaturization has been driven by two complementary approaches:

  • the top-down route: this involves miniaturizing devices down to the nanometric scale. The aim of this miniaturization is to increase circuit integration density, which could reach up to 10 12 transistors per chip

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