More than Moore: Creating High Value Micro/Nanoelectronics Systems

In the past decades, the main stream of microelectronics progress has been mainly powered by Moore's law which focuses on IC miniaturization down to nanoscale. While the microelectronics community around the world continues to invent new solutions to keep Moore's law alive, there is a fast increasing need for non-digital and mixed-signal “More than Moore” (MtM) type  technologies that are still based upon or derived from silicon technologies, but do not simply scale with Moore's law. Typical examples are devices incorporating RF, power/high voltage, passive components, sensors and actuators, MEMS, Bio-chip/bio-systems, microfluidics, solid-state lighting, etc.. The increasing momentum of MtM is triggered by the increasing needs for high level heterogeneous system integration including non-digital functions, the necessity to speed up innovative product creation and to broaden the product portfolio of IC fabs, and the limiting cost and time factors of advanced system-on-chip (SoC) development. It is believed that MtM will add value to society on top of and beyond advanced semiconductors technologies, with fast increasing marketing potentials, and that it will drive paradigm shift for technologies, applications and business models.

More than Moore (MtM) explores a new area of micro/nanoelectronics, which reaches beyond the boundaries of conventional semiconductor technologies and applications. Creating and integrating various non-digital functionality to semiconductor products, MtM focuses on creating high value micro/nanoelectronics systems, motivating new technological possibilities and unlimited application potential.

Drawing upon technological insight and extensive practical experience, G.Q. Zhang, A. J. van Roosmalen and contributors discuss:

The changing landscape of micro/nanoelectronics

Smart integrated systems – from components to products

RF technologies and systems

High voltage and power

Sensors and actuators on CMOS platforms

Biochips

Optoelectronics

Semiconductor image sensing

Heterogeneous integration - building the foundation for innovative products

System Level Design

More than Moore  will be of interest to graduate students, engineers, scientists and R&D managers involved in the value chain of semiconductors, micro/nanoelectronics, materials and equipment, design, consumer and professional electronics, and broad application domains.