Materials Science World Congress

Nanoelectronics and nanophotonics are revolutionary fields involving material at the nanoscale for the design and improvement of electronic and photonic systems. These technologies have vast scope in industries ranging from telecommunications to renewable energy and computing next generation.

The advances at an atomic level in nanoelectronics have led to the creation of electronic components smaller, faster, and more efficient than those made possible by current microelectronics. Though conventional silicon-based electronics have their own limitations, other nanostructures like quantum dots and molecular electronics have the possibility of opening new realms. Some breakthroughs in terms of device performance include comparative advantages such as higher processing speeds that involve lower energy consumption and even greater storage efficiency compared to traditional electronics. Nanoelectronics has many application-specific areas such as smaller, faster transistors, sensors, and memory chips that form more compact and advanced electronic systems.

Nanophotonics involves the interaction of photons and matter at a dimension of nanometers. Therefore, data processing and transmission to unprecedented accuracy can be achieved by this nanophotonic device because it operates with light at such a small scale. This research area has spurred the capacity for the development of the most advanced lasers in this world, such as photonic circuits, and high-efficiency solar cells, amongst other communication systems. It will also enable higher-speed data transfer with lesser loss of energy. This will also open avenues to further innovative optical computing.