Issues of Nanoelectronics: A Possible Roadmap

Engineering & Materials Science

• Nanoelectronics 100%
• Electron devices 79%
• Wave functions 42%
• Electrons 31%
• Qubits 29%
• Self assembly 27%
• Capacitance 26%
• Cellular automata 23%
• Computing and information processing 20%
• Networks (circuits) 17%
• Electric wiring 11%
• Thermal energy 10%
• Integrated circuits 9%
• Oxides 8%
• Energy dissipation 8%
• Signal processing 8%
• Temperature 8%
• Neural networks 6%

Chemical Compounds

• Wave Function 50%
• Tunneling 44%
• Self-Energy 24%
• Electron Spin 24%
• Tunneling Current 22%
• Nuclear Spin 19%
• Ambient Reaction Temperature 16%
• Dissipation 15%
• Electron Particle 15%
• Oxide 7%
• Energy 6%
• Time 5%

Physics & Astronomy

• CMOS 26%
• electrons 17%
• capacitance 14%
• cellular automata 14%
• wave functions 14%
• quantum computation 12%
• self assembly 12%
• scaling 12%
• wiring 7%
• room temperature 6%
• SOI (semiconductors) 6%
• nuclear spin 6%
• thermal energy 6%
• electron spin 6%
• integrated circuits 5%
• signal processing 5%
• flat surfaces 5%
• dissipation 4%
• interactions 4%
• solid state 4%
• trends 4%
• engineering 4%
• oxides 3%
• energy 1%