Please find below the October 2007 digital issue of MicroNanoSystems

With the hype surrounding nanotechnology, MEMS and integration of emerging technologies it would be easy to assume that the industry has all the results and processes required to develop a constant supply of life changing devices for the business and consumer world. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

There are many scientists who believe that the term nanotechnology has been adopted to early but the marketers have already run with the ball. The reason for the reluctance is that there are almost no products that are of that size or being built from the bottom up rather than the traditional top down. Microelectronic manufactures have made parts of their devices at nano size for a number of years now and there is still a way to go to iron out the manufacturing issues.

Similarly MEMS has not reached its potential as there are a plethora of manufacturing needs based on the device rather than the generic size of a semiconductor. Economic realities require a similar manufacturing ease as with semiconductors. The key factor for all merging technologies is the ability to integrate into the existing electronics food chain. Design and system wide accessibility will be the key driver for these exciting new developments.

MicroNanoSystems will explore the synergies between these new technologies taking a look at how any development is inherently tied to the legacy systems. I look forward to creating an interesting forum to explore this issue.

David Ridsdale
Editor-In-Chief

Features - October 2007