Nanoelectronics

Abstract

The passive circuit elements resistor, inductor, and capacitor, which are the basic building blocks of an electronic circuit, need to be scaled down for application in fifth-generation wireless communication networks. Due to the growing demands in memory and computational capacities of integrated circuits along with high processing and transmission data speed for next-generation, microelectronics will be replaced by nanoelectronics in the future. The concept of nanoscale network on chip system is expected to play an important role in the field of communication systems for designing new devices of ultra-high speed for long and short-range communication links, power efficient computing devices, high-density memory and logic, and ultrafast interconnects. This chapter focuses on the mechanism of tailoring, patterning, and manipulating optical signals using nanometer-scale structures that may play the role of lumped nanocircuit elements at optical domain when selected properly with tremendous promise for application for fifth-generation communication systems.