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Beyond the silicon roadmap

Nature volume 419, pages 573–575 (2002)Cite this article

Silicon will eventually fail to satisfy the 'smaller, faster, cheaper' drive in technology. Nanoscale techniques could take over, and a recent conference reviewed the prospects for computing and electronics.

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Figure 1: The conference logo writ small.

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  1. *Trends in Nanotechnology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9–13 September 2002.

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