Access

News and Views

Nature 393, 15-17 (7 May 1998) | doi:10.1038/29874

Open Innovation Challenges

Nanotechnology:  Carbon-based electronics

Paul L. McEuen1

Microelectronics is probably the technology that has most changed the twentieth century, and silicon is the atom at its heart. Although electronics, and hence silicon, will undoubtedly remain of central importance as we move into the next millennium, many would argue that biotechnology will be the most revolutionary technology of the early twenty-first century.

  1. Paul L. McEuen is at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 366 LeConte Hall, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
    e-mail: Email: mceuen@physics.berkeley.edu