There is a constant demand for faster, higher density and lower power forms of data/information handling and processing. This inevitably leads to the need to make individual electronic devices such as transistors, memory nodes and other components smaller/faster and smaller/faster The continued march of miniaturization in electronics provides a constant challenge for designing future technologies to stay at the forefront of semiconductor technology. Nanospintronics, quantum information processing, single-electron devices, nanoelectronics and organic nanoelectronics are possible concrete approach to develop new technologies with related advanced devices, including memories, for which there is a continuously increasing demand of faster and low power-consuming performances. In such a context, material innovation is of central importance. The session(s) will focus the attention on some recent advances regarding electronic devices both in terms of technology and materials.

Roberto MANTOVAN - CV, CNR-IMM
Development of large-area topological insulators on Silicon for spintronics