Trends in Microfabrication Capabilities & Device Architectures

Technical Report · 01 June 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1192538· OSTI ID:1192538

Bauer, Todd ^[1]; Jones, Adam ^[1]; Lentine, Anthony L. ^[1]; Mudrick, John ^[1]; Okandan, Murat ^[1]; Rodrigues, Arun F. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The last two decades have seen an explosion in worldwide R&D, enabling fundamentally new capabilities while at the same time changing the international technology landscape. The advent of technologies for continued miniaturization and electronics feature size reduction, and for architectural innovations, will have many technical, economic, and national security implications. It is important to anticipate possible microelectronics development directions and their implications on US national interests. This report forecasts and assesses trends and directions for several potentially disruptive microfabrication capabilities and device architectures that may emerge in the next 5-10 years.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IN), Office of Intelligence; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1192538
• Report Number(s): SAND--2015-5048R; 594679
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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