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CSE 598 Nanoarchitectures

Spring 2005

Lecture 1: IntroductionVijay Narayanan (www.cse.psu.edu/~vijay)

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What is Nanoscale?

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Nanoscale Dimensions

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Nanoscale Properties A characteristic feature of moving to the

nanometer scale (besides the growing domination of quantum physical effects) is that properties of surfaces or boundary layers play an increasing role compared with the bulk properties of the material.

Basic structures of nanotechnology are: Pointlike structures smaller than 100 nm in all three

dimensions (e.g. nanocrystals, clusters or molecules) linear structures which are nanosized in two dimensions

(e.g. nanowires, nanotubes and nanogrooves) layered structures which are nanosized in only one

dimension, "inverse" nanostructures (i.e. pores) and complex structures such as supramolecular units or dendrimers.

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Nanoscale properties The reduction of size into the nanometer area

often results in characteristic properties of substances and materials which can be exploited for new applications and which do not appear in macroscopic pieces of the same materials.

significantly higher hardness and breaking strength superplasticity at high temperatures the emergence of additional electronic states high chemical selectivity of surface sites significantly increased surface energy

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How to achieve Nanoscale Features?

There are two fundamental strategies for penetrating the nanodimension.

"top-down" approach, which is predominant particularly in physics and physical technology.

Here,starting from microtechnology structures and components are more and more miniaturised.

"bottom-up/self-assembly" approach in which increasingly complex structures are specifically assembled from atomic or molecular components.

This approach is primarily featured in chemistry and biology, where dealing with objects of the nanometer scale has long been familiar practice.

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Interdisciplinary by Nature Nanotechnology requires a high degree of

interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation and communication. This is due to the fact that at the nano level the terminology of physics, chemistry and biology overlaps and blurs, and also to the fact that techniques from a single discipline can or must be supplemented by techniques and expertise from other disciplines.

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What we will cover in this class? Nanoscale CMOS technologies

Process Variations, NonClassical CMOS Structures Lithography Limits, Interconnect Challenges

Novel Memory Architectures SEM, FeRAM, MRAM, PRAM

Nanosensor Architectures

Molecular Electronics

Spintronics and SET

Quantum Cellular Architectures

Carbon Nanotube Architectures

BioChips

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Class Grading Midterm Exam – 30%

Final Exam – 30%

Class Presentations and Project – 30%

Class Participation – 10%

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Reference Books Emerging Nanoelcetronics: Life with and after

CMOS, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Several Research Papers

Books on Library Course Reserve in Pattee Library

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CSE 598 Nanoarchitectures

Spring 2005

Lecture 2: Top 10 ChallengesVijay Narayanan (www.cse.psu.edu/~vijay)

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Silicon’s Roadmap

Year 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014

Feature size (nm) 180 130 100 70 50 35

Chip size (mm2) 170 214 235 269 308 354

Clock rate (GHz)* 1.2 1.6 2.2 2.8 3.6 4.4

Power supply Vdd

(V)1.8 1.5 1.2 0.9 0.7 0.6

Power (W) 90 130 160 170 174 183For a Cost-Performance MPU

(L1 on-chip SRAM cache; 32KB in 1999 doubling every two years)

http://www.itrs.net

Specification of what must be provided if Moore’s Law is to

continue to hold.* clock rates double the SIA Roadmap

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Moore’s Law No. of trans./chip doubles every generation (~18

mo.)

100X increase in performance on SPECmarks in the last 10 years (from 33MHz 486 in 1990 to the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 in 2000)

20X from technology scaling

4X from architecture 1.25X from compiler

technology

10

100

1000

Dec-83 Dec-86 Dec-89 Dec-92 Dec-95 Dec-98

8038680486PentiumPentium II

Expon.

How much longer can we track Moore’s Law ?

Source: ISCA’01 Panel

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Gate Length Scaling

Transistor Integration CapacityTransistor Integration Capacity

0.001

0.01

0.1

1

10

100

1000

10 5 2 1 0.5 0.25 0.13 0.07

Technology (m)

Tra

nsi

sto

rs (

Mil

lio

n)

1 Billion

On track for 1B transistor integration capacityOn track for 1B transistor integration capacityOn track for 1B transistor integration capacityOn track for 1B transistor integration capacity

Is Transistor a Good Switch?Is Transistor a Good Switch?

On

I = ∞

I = 0

Off

I = 0

I = 0

I ≠ 0

I = 1ma/u

I ≠ 0

I ≠ 0Sub-threshold Leakage

Hot ChipsHot Chips

Why worry about power consumption ? determines battery life for mobile units and . . .

YearYear 19991999 20022002 20052005 20082008 20112011 20142014

Logic Logic trans/Chip (M)trans/Chip (M)

1515 6060 235235 925925 3,6503,650 14,4014,4000

Clock rate Clock rate (GHz)(GHz)

1.21.2 1.61.6 2.22.2 2.82.8 3.63.6 4.44.4

Power supply Power supply VVdd dd (V)(V)

1.81.8 1.51.5 1.21.2 0.90.9 0.70.7 0.60.6

Power (W)Power (W) 9090 130130 160160 170170 174174 183183

E (joules) = CL Vdd2 P01 + tsc Vdd Ipeak P01 + Vdd

Ileakage

P (watts) = CL Vdd2 f01 + tscVdd Ipeak f01 + Vdd Ileakage

Challenge #1Challenge #1

Sub-threshold LeakageSub-threshold Leakage

Sub-threshold leakage increases exponentiallySub-threshold leakage increases exponentiallySub-threshold leakage increases exponentiallySub-threshold leakage increases exponentially

1

10

100

1000

10000

30 50 70 90 110 130

Temp (C)

Ioff

(n

a/u

)

0.25u

45nm

Assume:

0.25mm, Ioff = 1na/m5X increase each generation at 30ºC

SD Leakage PowerSD Leakage Power

0.1

1

10

100

1000

0.25u 0.18u 0.13u 90nm 65nm 45nm

Technology

SD

Lea

kag

e (W

atts

)

2X Tr Growth1.5X Tr Growth

SD leakage power becomes prohibitiveSD leakage power becomes prohibitiveSD leakage power becomes prohibitiveSD leakage power becomes prohibitive

Leakage PowerLeakage Power

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

1.5 0.7 0.35 0.18 0.09 0.05

Technology (m)

Lea

kag

e P

ow

er(%

of

To

tal)

Must stopat 50%

Leakage power limits Vt scalingLeakage power limits Vt scalingLeakage power limits Vt scalingLeakage power limits Vt scaling

A. Grove, IEDM 2002

Challenge #2Challenge #2

Gate Oxide is Near LimitGate Oxide is Near Limit

Poly Si Gate Electrode

Si Substrate

1.5 nm Gate Oxide

70 nm

Si3N4

CoSi2130nm Transistor

Will high K happen?Will high K happen?Would you count on it?Would you count on it?

Will high K happen?Will high K happen?Would you count on it?Would you count on it?

Gate Leakage PowerGate Leakage Power

1.E-031.E-021.E-011.E+001.E+011.E+021.E+031.E+041.E+051.E+06

0.25u 0.18u 0.13u 90nm 65nm 45nm

Technology

Gat

e L

eaka

ge

(Wat

ts)

1.5X

2X

During Burn-in1.4X Vdd

If Tox scaling slows down, then Vdd If Tox scaling slows down, then Vdd scaling will have to slow downscaling will have to slow down

If Tox scaling slows down, then Vdd If Tox scaling slows down, then Vdd scaling will have to slow downscaling will have to slow down

Energy per Logic OperationEnergy per Logic Operation

1.E-08

1.E-07

1.E-06

1.E-05

1.E-04

1.E-03

1.E-02

1.E-01

1.E+00

10 5 2 1 0.5 0.25 0.13 0.07

Technology (m)

En

erg

y/L

og

ic O

per

atio

n

(No

rmal

ized

)

This was Good

Slow down

Energy per logic operation scaling will slow downEnergy per logic operation scaling will slow downEnergy per logic operation scaling will slow downEnergy per logic operation scaling will slow down

Challenge #4Challenge #4

Frequency & SD LeakageFrequency & SD Leakage

0.9

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

0 5 10 15 20

Normalized Leakage (Isb)

No

rmal

ized

Fre

qu

ency

0.18 micron~1000 samples

20X30%

Low FreqLow Isb

High FreqMedium Isb

High FreqHigh Isb

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

-39.71 -25.27 -10.83 3.61 18.05 32.49

VTn(mv)

# o

f C

hip

s

~30mV

Vt DistributionVt Distribution

0.18 micron~1000 samples

Low FreqLow Isb

High FreqMedium Isb

High FreqHigh Isb

Vdd & Temp VariationVdd & Temp Variation

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

110

Tem

per

atu

re (

C)

0

50

100

150

200

250

He

at F

lux

(W

/cm

2)

Heat Flux (W/cm2)Results in Vcc variation

Temperature Variation (°C)Hot spots

Challenge #6Challenge #6

Exponential CostsExponential Costs

$1

$10

$100

$1,000

$10,000

$100,000

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Lit

ho

To

ol

Co

st (

$K)

G. MooreISSCC 03

Litho Cost

$1

$10

$100

$1,000

$10,000

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Fab

Co

st (

$M)

www.icknowledge.com

FAB Cost

1.E-06

1.E-05

1.E-04

1.E-03

1.E-02

1.E-01

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

$/T

ran

sist

or

$ per Transistor

1.E-02

1.E-01

1.E+00

1.E+01

1.E+02

1.E+03

1.E+04

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

$/M

IPs

$ per MIPS

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Fabrication Costs

Year 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014

Feature size (nm) 180 130 100 70 50 35

Chip size (mm2) 170 214 235 269 308 354

Logic trans/Chip (M)

15 60 235 925 3,650 14,400

Cost of building factories increases by a factor of two every three years; by 2010 a fab may cost $30 billion

Mask costs are growing rapidly adding more to upfront NRE for new designs

next-generation lithography methods require expensive complex masks (optical proximity correction (OPC) and phase shift (PSM)) that are computationally complex to generate and that have low error tolerances

multiple masks that require longer write times increase mask production costs

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Exploding NRE’s

0

1

2

3

4

250 200 150 100 50

Process Geometry (nm)

Mas

k Co

sts

($M

)

A mask set for a complex chip today can cost $500,000 (up from $100,000 a decade ago)

At 150nm SEMATECH estimates that we will be entering the regime of the $1M mask set

A 70nm ASIC will have $4M NRE !

Source: www.InnovationRevolution.com

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Optical Lithography

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Mask Costs

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Optical Proximity Correction

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Phase Shift Masks Selectively altering the phase of the light passing through

certain areas of a photomask in order to take advantage of destructive interference

improve resolution and depth of focus in optical lithography

Each aperture would transmit the light passing through in such a way that it would be 180 degrees out of phase from light passing though adjacent apertures.

Causes any overlapping light from two adjacent apertures to interfere destructively, thus reducing any exposure in the center ‘dark’ region.

This type of phase-shifting mask, known as an alternating aperture phase shift mask.

Most effective on device patterns which are highly repetitive and closely spaced, such as poly and metal layers.

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Challenge #7 Slow Wires

Year 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014

Chip diameter (mm)

18.4 20.7 21.7 23.2 24.8 26.6

Clock rate (GHz) 1.2 1.6 2.2 2.8 3.6 4.4 Wire delay trends

Long wires don’t scale (RC delay)

- constant delay for short wires (L scales down by S > 1)

Many “short wires” become “long wires” as technology scales

New microarchitectures typically increase wire lengths- accessing global resources

Local

Wire

Global Wire

W, H, tox1/S 1/S

L(ength) 1/S 1/SG

C WL/tox1/S 1/SG

R L/WH S S2/SG

RC L2/Htox1 S2/SG

2 S > 1 and SG < 1

for S = 1.15 and SG = 0.94, global wire delay goes up 50%

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0

0.2

0.4

0.6

250 180 130 100

70 50 35

pF

Technology Ldrawn (nm)

Semi-local wire capacitance, scaled length

Aggressive scalingConservative scaling

0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

250 180 130 100 70 50 35

Kohm

s

Technology Ldrawn (nm)

Semi-local wire resistance, scaled length

Aggressive scalingConservative scaling

Scaling Module (Short) Wires R is basically constant; C falls linearly with scaling

Source: ISCA’01 Panel

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0

0.2

0.4

0.6

250 180 130 100 70 50 35

pF

Technology Ldrawn (nm)

Semi-global wire capacitance, 1mm long

Aggressive scalingConservative scaling

0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.25 0.18 0.13 0.1 0.07 50 35

Kohm

s

Technology Ldrawn (nm)

Semi-global wire resistance, 1mm long

Aggressive scalingConservative scaling

Scaling Global (Long) Wires R gets quite a bit worse; C is basically constant

Source: ISCA’01 Panel

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Clock Distribution Limits

0

20

40

60

80

100

250 180 130 100 80 60

Processor generation (nm)

Die

rea

chab

le (

%) 1 clock

2 clocks

4 clocks

8 clocks

16 clocks

Source: Matzke IEEE Computer

Clocks are long wires with big RC’s that have rigid clock skew constraints

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New Interconnect Technologies Will new interconnect technologies save us?

Copper interconnect allows wires to be thinner without increasing their resistance, decreasing interwire and fringe capacitance

Material (-m)

Silver (Ag) 1.6 x 10-8

Copper (Cu) 1.7 x 10-8

Gold (Au) 2.2 x 10-8

Aluminum (Al)

2.7 x 10-8

Material di

Free space 1Teflon AF 2.1

Aromatic thermoset (SiLK)

2.6 – 2.8

Polyimides (organic) 3.1 – 3.4Fluorosilicate glass (FSG) 3.2 – 4.0

Silicon dioxide 3.9 – 4.5 Low capacitance (low-k) dielectrics

SOI (silicon on insulator)

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Signal Distribution Limits

0.001

0.01

0.1

1

10

100

0.1 1 10 100

Driving Frequency (GHz)

Max

Pro

paga

tion

Dis

tanc

e

(mm

)

10000 nm

1000 nm

100 nm10 nm

Even if signals could be propagated at the velocity of light, there are finite wiring distribution limits

it would only be possible to distribute a signal over a 15mm radius with a 1GHz clock assuming a maximum skew of 5%

with a 10GHz clock that drops to 1.5mm radius

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Challenge #8 Chip I/O Bottleneck

Limited signal pins consume large number of

pins in power/ground supplies (to combat the supply rail bounce)

what happens to Rent’s Rule ?

Year 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014

Logic trans/chip (M)

15 60 235 925 3,650 14,400

Signal pins/chip 768 1024 1024 1280 1408 1472

1

10

100

1000

10000

1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014

Year

Logi

c tr

ans/

Sig

nal

pins

T = t Bp

0 p 1 Rent exponent

Normal values: 0.5 p 0.75

t average # pins/block

T = # signal pins/chip

Source: Landman, Russo, IEEETC, 1971

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Challenge #9 ReliabilityYear 2005 2008 2011 2014 201? 202?

Feature size (nm)

100 70 50 35 10 3

Device packing density - memory

1 * 109

2 * 109 4 * 109 1 * 1010

1 * 1011

1 * 1012

Device packing density - logic

1 * 108

2 * 108 4 * 108 1 * 109 1 * 1010

1 * 1011

Chip defects and transient errors will reduce the number of useful devices per unit area

use redundancy to work around chip defects, but at the smallest device dimensions, transient errors due

to- small number of electrons associated with each bit of information- thermal excitation of stray charge carriers, radioactive impurities,

and cosmic rays

may make it necessary to use redundancy on a massive scale (27-fold or even 81-fold)

Thermal densities will aggravate transient errors

molecular scale

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Challenge #10 Design Costs

Year 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014

Feature size (nm) 180 130 100 70 50 35

Chip size (mm2) 170 214 235 269 308 354

Logic trans/chip (M)

15 60 235 925 3,650

14,400

Microscopic issues ultra-high speeds,

clock distribution

power dissipation and supply rail drop

growing importance of interconnect

noise, crosstalk

reliability, manufacturability

Macroscopic issues time-to-market

design complexity (millions of gates)

IP reuse

systems on a chip (SoC)

design verification

tool interoperability

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0.0010.01

0.11

10100

100010000

1981

1983

1985

1987

1989

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

58%/Yr compoundComplexity growth rate

The Productivity Gap

Year Feature Size (nm)

Logic trans/chip

(M)

3 Yr. Design

Staff Size

Staff Costs

1997 350 6 210 $90 M

1998 250 9.5 270 $120 M

1999 180 15 360 $160 M

2002 130 59.5 800 $360 M* @ $ 150K/Staff Yr. (in 1997 Dollars) Source: SEMATECH

21%/Yr compoundProductivity growth rate

100000

10000

1000

100

10

1

0.1

0.01

Log

ic T

ran

sis

tors

/Ch

ip (

M)

Pro

du

cti

vit

y (

K)

Tra

ns./

Sta

ff-M

o.

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Limits to Terascale Integration “Silicon technology has an enormous remaining

potential to achieve terascale integration (TSI) . . . double-gate MOSfets with gate oxide thickness of ~ 1nm, channel widths of 3nm, and channel lengths of 10nm” Meindl, Science, Sept 2001

“assuming the development and economical mass production of double-gate MOSfets. . . . The development of interconnecting wires for these transistors presents a major challenge to the achievement of nanoelectronics for TSI”

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Hybrid Technologies Nanotechnology may offer solutions to some of the issues with

future scaling of CMOS technology.

Global on-chip metal wires may be replaced with strategically located strapped on nanotubes

I/O pads may be largely replaced with nanotech/MEMS sensors and actuators (chips that see, smell, hear, taste)

low power nanotech alternatives for wireless communication components will emerge

radically new high density, nonvolatile, on-chip storage technologies

are already on the horizon.

Use of nanotechnology may help to

mitigate power consumption

reduce mask costs (due to the use of technologies that self assemble).

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Nano-overview Reading

The Future of Nanocomputing, Computer Aug 2003, pp 44-.

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CSE 598 NanoarchitecturesSpring 2005

Lecture 3: Future of Nanocomputing

Vijay Narayanan (www.cse.psu.edu/~vijay)

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The Future of Nanocomputing – Looking Back

Bandstructure Concept

Effect of impurities on semiconductor properties

Advances in producing high-quality crystal interfaces in silicon and germanium

Devices 1948 – bipolar transistors 1953 – FET 1955 – LED 1957 – Tunnel Diodes 1959 – ICs 1962 – Semiconductor lasers

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Moving the ITRS Red Brick Wall New Materials

High K gate dielectrics and gate materials

Structures and channel materials such as strained silicon and silicon germanium

Source-Drain materials Dopants

Improved Processes Etching, annealing Better patterning

techniques

New Geometries Double gates and Trigate

structuresSource: G. Bourianoff

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Technology Limits Power dissipation limits

100 watts per sq. cm for passive cooling techniques

Scaled CMOS devices manipulate electric charge as well as any research and development nanotechnologies !!

Non-charge based technologies- Spin and photon fields

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SRC Taxanomy

Source: SRC Taskforce

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Carbon Nanotubes

Source: Spectrum

Source: Computer Aug 2003

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Carbon Nanotube To form carbon nanotubes, an atomic planar

sheet of carbon atoms is bonded together into an array of hexagons and rolled up to form molecular tubes or cylinders with 1 to 20 nm diameters and ranging from 100 nm to several microns in length.

The subthreshold slope of 70 mV per decade for the p-type transistors approaches the room-temperature theoretical limit of 60 mV.

Subthreshold swing is a key parameter for transistor miniaturization since it measures how well a small swing in gate voltage can cut off current flow.

Low cutoff current directly translates into low standby power—a major challenge for end-of the Roadmap devices.

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Silicon Nanowire quantum confinement in

the transverse direction of silicon nanowires results in greater mobilities than in bulk silicon.

Keep electrons confined to a small region

For more on quantum confinement http://www.ringsurf.com/info/Technology_/Nanotechnology/Structures.html

limits the density of available phonon states and hence reduces the probability of an electron phonon-scattering event—that is, it reduces drag.

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Why Silicon Nanowires? The performance of these isolated devices cannot

in general compete with scaled silicon on speed.

Their potential lies in achieving increased density and reducing fabrication costs.

Proponents of cross-bar architectures argue that arrays of these devices can be “self-assembled” using fluidic assembly and Langmuir-Blodgett techniques.

The major problems are in providing the gain necessary for signal restoration and fan out and to connect the self-assembled modules to global control lines.

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Silicon Nanowire Architectures

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Architectures

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Quantum Cellular Architecture QCA straddles the line between being a new

architecture and a new device, clearly demonstrating that new architectures may be required to support new devices.

In the QCA paradigm, a locally interconnected architecture consists of a regular array of cells containing several quantum dots.

Electrostatic interactions, not wires, provide the coupling between the cells. When we inject an electron pair into the cell, this electron pair’s orientation defines the cell’s state.

Electrical or Magnetic

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QCAs - Cons Grid style QCA architectures would be

extraordinarily inefficient in terms of area.

However, by departing from the regular grid structure, it is possible to design EQCA structures that could carry out universal computing with moderate efficiency.

However, current device and circuit analyses indicate that the speed of EQCA circuits will be limited to less than about 10 MHz.

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Defect Tolerant Architectures The general idea behind defect-tolerant

architectures is conceptually the opposite of traditional architectures

Designers fabricate a generic set of wires and switches, then they configure the resources by setting switches that link them together to obtain the desired functionality.

A cornerstone of defect-tolerant systems is redundancy of hardware resources—switches, memory cells, and wires—which implies very high integration density.

Fabrication could potentially be very inexpensive if researchers can actualize a chemical self-assembly and attach global interconnects

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Fault vs defect tolerance It is important to differentiate between defect-

tolerant and fault-tolerant architectures.

Fault-tolerant systems are designed to deal with transient faults and usually require some form of redundancy checking.

Both defect-tolerant and fault-tolerant systems have an upper limit to the number of defects or faults they can handle before the correction process dominates the overall calculation efficency.

The numerical limit appears to be 20 to 25 percent bad elements or defective calculations.

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Phase Logic Phase logic is is closely associated with the use of

phase as a state variable.

Richard Feynman received a patent for what he called the Parameteron in the 1950s.

it is possible to store information as the relative phase of two oscillating analog signals in a tank oscillator circuit. One signal is labeled as the reference signal, and the other is labeled as the control signal.

Changing the phase of the control signal relative to the reference signal “changes state” and logic.

If the circuit has only two allowed relative phases, it is possible to implement both binary and multivalued logic.

More recent variation is tunneling phase logic

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Quantum Computing The core idea of quantum information processing

or quantum computing is that each individual component of an infinite superposition of

wave functions is manipulated in parallel achieving a massive speedup relative to conventional

computers. The challenge is to manipulate the wave functions so

that they perform a useful function and then to find a way to read the result of the calculation.

Implementations bulk resonance quantum implementations including

NMR, linear optics, and cavity quantum electrodynamics;

atomic quantum implementations including trapped ions and optical lattices;

solid-state quantum implementations including semiconductors and superconductors.

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State Variables The search for alternative logic devices must

embrace the concept of using state variables other than electric charge.

molecular state

spin orientation

electric dipole orientation

photon intensity or polarization

quantum state

phase state

mechanical state

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Economic Impact Risk of adjusted return on investment of any new

technology must exceed that of silicon is trivially true,

Herb Kroemer, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics, cautions, sufficiently advanced technologies will create their own applications.

To estimate the total ROI for an emerging technology, in addition to markets that exist today, we also must anticipate future markets—and that’s tough.

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Technology Trends the bulk band structure of solids needs to be

replaced by geometry-dependent energetic structures of nanostructures, requiring us toanalyze their stability and their basic quantum mechanical energy levels;

doping, a bulk process, needs to be replaced by the precise manipulation and placement of individual atoms; and

crystal growth, another bulk process, needs to be replaced by the self-organization of matter and self-assembly of complex structures.

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Next Lecture Lithography vs. Self Assembly

Reading List A PROMISING LITHOGRAPHY GETS STUCK, 56-57,

Spectrum January, 2004 A little light Magic, 34- , Spectrum, September 2003 Chip Makings Wet New technology, pp. 30- , Spectrum,

May 2004 New Frontiers: Self-Assembly and Nanoelectronics,

Computer, January 2001, pp 34-

Nanoarchitectures – Spring 2005 copyright Vijay

CSE 598 Nanoarchitectures

Spring 2005

Lecture 4: Lithography vs.

Self AssemblyVijay Narayanan (www.cse.psu.edu/~vijay)