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Nanoelectronics has to be discussed in the background of today’s microelectronic capabilities. Silicon is the predominant material of present microelectronic technologies, since it has very suitable integration properties. However, other materials such as GaAs have even better properties. Among other things, the already gathered production knowledge of silicon-based technologies represents a huge capital expenditure that still has to be found for other technologies. Thus, alternative technologies are interesting and provide important information for the further development of microelectronics, but at present they do not show any economic importance in comparison with silicon technology.
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Goser, K., Glösekötter, P., Dienstuhl, J. (2004). Potentials of Silicon Technology. In: Nanoelectronics and Nanosystems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05421-5_2
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