ABSTRACT

At the onset of the twenty-first century, we are presented with stimulating prospects to develop technologies capitalizing on the reduction of feature sizes to produce unique behaviors. The term nanotechnology is often used loosely, but a well-accepted definition is technology that advantageously uses phenomena occurring at critical features of approximately 1–100 nm [1,2]. Particularly for current computational technologies, this creates challenges to overcome, but also provides opportunities to explore novel paradigms and unconventional implementations of logic and memories.