International Mini-Workshop Series: "An Assessment of Options for a Post-CMOS Information Industry"; April-September 2004; Stresa, Italy, San Francisco, CA, and Brussels, Belgium

到2016年或更早的时候，半导体行业将接近于CMOS规模的结束，功能成本比的持续进步将需要新的信息处理技术的发明。今天，在纳米电子学的总标题下，一系列关于器件、制造技术和系统架构的新概念正在涌现。这可能最终为我们在过去30年中所经历的信息技术的继续摩尔定律的进步提供基础。对于后CMOS技术，如分子电子学、碳纳米管器件等，已经提出了广泛的新概念。由于任何新领域的特点，很难辨别这些概念中的哪一个有可能为未来的信息技术提供技术基础。2003年，半导体行业通过国际半导体技术路线图(ITRS)过程，开始评估各种研究设备的适用性，以此作为延续历史功能-成本趋势的基础。行业专家在没有大学研究界大量投入的情况下进行了这些评估，他们表示，为逻辑应用而研究的研究设备中，没有一种可能在CMOS规模结束后继续信息技术的摩尔定律。这种相当悲观的评估，如果是正确的，将推动对设备和架构研究进行新思维的需要。另一方面，2003年的ITRS评估可能是由于ITRS新兴研究和器件技术工作组(ERD TWG)对拟议的新器件技术的性能潜力理解不足的结果。这项建议寻求旅行资金，让大学研究人员与ITRS路线图的ERD工作组成员一起参加三个迷你研讨会，以便2004/2005版本的ITRS将反映对建议用于后CMOS器件的候选技术的共识意见。

By 2016 or earlier the Semiconductor Industry will be nearing the end of CMOS scaling and that continued progress in functionality-cost ratios will require the invention of new information processing technologies. A range of new concepts for devices, fabrication techniques, and system architectures are emerging today under the general heading of nanoelectronics. That may eventually provide the basis for continuing the Moore's Law advances in information technologies that we have experienced for the last three decades.A wide range of new ideas have been proposed for post-CMOS technologies, such as molecular electronics, carbon nanotube devices etc. Characteristic of any new area, it is difficult to discern which of these concepts has the potential to provide a technological basis for information technologies of the future.In 2003, the Semiconductor Industry, via the International Technology Roadmap forSemiconductors (ITRS) process, began to assess the applicability of a wide range of research devices to serve as a basis for continuing historical functionality-cost trends.Industry specialists conducted these assessments without substantial inputs from the university research community and they indicated that none of the research devices studied for logic applications is a likely candidate to continue the Moore's law cadence for information technology beyond the end of CMOS scaling. This rather bleak assessment, if correct, drives the need for new thinking in device and architecture research. On the other hand, the 2003 ITRS assessment may be the result of the ITRS Emerging ResearchDevice Technology working Group's (ERD TWG) inadequate comprehension of the performance potential of the proposed new device technologies.This proposal seeks travel funds for university researchers to attend three mini-workshops with the ITRS Roadmap's ERD Working Group members so that the 2004/2005 version of the ITRS will reflect a consensus view on candidate technologies proposed for Post-CMOS devices.