Future Trends in Microelectronics: From Nanophotonics to Sensors to Energy

Preface

S. Luryi

Dept. of Electrical and Computer EngineeringSUNY–Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, U.S.A.

J. M. Xu and A. Zaslavsky

Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A.

This book is a brainchild of the sixth workshop in the Future Trends in Microelectronics series (FTM-6). The first of the FTM conferences, “Reflections on the Road to Nanotechnology”, had gathered in 1995 on Ile de Bendor, a beautiful little French Mediterranean island.¹ The second FTM, “Off the Beaten Path”, took place in 1998 on a larger island in the same area, Ile des Embiez.² Instead of going to a still larger island, the third FTM, “The Nano Millennium” went back to its origins on Ile de Bendor in 2001.³ To compensate, the next FTM, “The Nano, the Giga, the Ultra, and the Bio” took place on the biggest French Mediterranean island of them all, Corsica.⁴ Normally, the FTM workshops gather every three years; however, the FTM-4 was held one year ahead of the usual schedule, in the summer of 2003, as a one-time exception. Continuing its inexorable motion eastward, the fifth FTM workshop, “Up the Nano Creek”, had convened on Crete, Greece, in June of 2006.⁵ The inexorable motion was then interrupted to produce a semblance of a random walk in the Mediterranean and the last workshop, FTM-6 “Unmapped Roads” went to the great Italian island of Sardinia (June 2009).

The FTM workshops are relatively small gatherings (less than 100 people) by invitation only. If you, the reader, wish ...