Silicon-based microelectronics

The existence of today s silicon based microelectronics technology is evidence for the low surface recombination velocity of oxidized Si. The velocity is less than 103 cm/sec.5,6,7... 

John T Yates Jr. (1998) A New Opportunity in Silicon-Based Microelectronics, Science 279 335-336... 

The modem silicon-based microelectronics led to the miniaturization of electronic devices. However, delays caused by metallic intercoimec-tions became a bottleneck for the improvement of their performances. One possible solution of this problem is to use optical intercoimections for the transfer of information, and, therefore, silicon compatible materials and devices that are able to generate, guide, amplify, switch, modulate, and detect light are needed. Rare earth silicates with luminescent rare earths and compatibility with silicon may be a good choice for these applications (Miritello et al., 2007). Miritello et al. presented the study on nanocrystalline erbium silicate thin films fabricated on silicon/silica substrates. The obtained films exhibit strong photoluminescence emission around 1540 nm with room temperature excitation by 488 ran Ar laser. 

G. Bub, M. I. Schoning, H. Luth, and J. W. Schultze, Modifications and characterization of a silicon-based microelectronic array, Electrochim. Acta 44, 3899, 1999. 

Molecular Electronics As silicon-based microelectronics is heading towards the increasingly difficult road of nanometer scale, building electronic devices with individual molecules (molecular electronics) becomes a promising alternative [103, 104]. Indeed, many molecules possess wonderful electronic properties... 

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