Preface (S. Luryi, J. M. Xu, and A. Zaslavskyix ) -- 1. PHYSICS: THE FOUNDATIONS1 -- Is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Really Possible (M. I. Dyakonov )? -- Quantum Computation ¿́¿Future of Microelectronics' (P. Hawrylak) -- Semiconductor Spintronics: Progress and Challenges (E. I. Rashba) -- Towards Semiconductor Spin Logic (I. ¿̐ưZutic and J. Fabian) -- Molecular Meso- and Nanodevices: Are the Molecules Conducting (N. B. Zhitenev)? -- The Problem of a Perfect Lens Made From a Slab: With Negative Refraction (A. L. Efros) -- Is There a Linewidth Theory for Semiconductor Lasers (B. Spivak and S. Luryi)? -- Fermi Liquid Behavior of GaAs Quantum Wires (E. Levy, A. Tsukernik, M. Karpovski, A. Palevski, B. Dwir, E. Pelucchi, A. Rudra, E. Kapon, and Y. Oreg) -- 2. BIOLOGY: WE ARE ALL ZOA -- Towards Molecular Medicine (H. van Houten and H. Hofstraat) -- Interfacing the Brain - With Microelectronics (A. V. Nurmikko, W. R. Patterson, Y.-K. Song, C. W. Bull, and J. P. Donoghue)? -- Synthetic Biology: Synthesis and Modification of a Chemical Called Poliovirus (S. Mueller, J. R. Coleman, J. Cello, A. Paul, E. Wimmer, D. Papamichail, and S. Skiena) -- Guided Evolution in Interacting Microchemostat Arrays for Optimization of Photobacterial Hydrogen Production (R. H. Austin, P. Galajda, and J. Keymer) -- Improvements in Light Emitters by Controlling Spontaneous Emission: From LEDs to Biochips (C. Weisbuch, A. David, M. Rattier, L. Martinelli, H. Choumane, N. Ha, C. Nelep, A. Chardon, G.-O. Reymond, C. Goutel, G. Cerovic, and H. Benisty) -- 3. ELECTRONICS: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS -- Nanomanufacturing Technology: Exa-Units at Nano-Dollars (M. R. Pinto) -- 32 nm: Lithography at a Crossroad (J. P. H. Benschop) -- Physical Limits of Silicon CMOS: Real Showstopper or Wrong Problem (M. Brillou¿̐ưt)? -- Will the Insulated Gate Transistor Concept Survive Next Decade (O. Engstr¿̐ưm) -- Scaling Limits of Silicon CMOS and Non-Silicon Opportunities (Y. Nishi) -- Carbon-Nanotube Solutions for the Post-CMOS-Scaling World (P. M. Solomon).

Alternatives to Silicon: Will Our Best Be Anywhere Good Enough in Time (M. J. Kelly)? -- MRAM Downscaling Challenges (F. Arnaud d'Avitaya, V. Safarov, and A. Filipe) -- Atomically Controlled Processing for Future Si-Based Devices (J. Murota, M. Sakuraba, and B. Tillack) -- Ultimate VLSI Clocking Using Passive Serial Distribution (M. Banu and V. Prodanov) -- Origin of 1/f Noise in MOS Devices: Concluding a Noisy Debate (K. Akarvardar, S. Cristoloveanu, and P. Gentil) -- Quasiballistic Transport in Nano-MOSFETs (E. Sangiorgi, S. Eminente, C. Fiegna, P. Palestri, D. Esseni, and L. Selmi) -- Absolute Negative Resistance in Ballistic Variable Threshold Field Effect Transistor (M. I. Dyakonov and M. S. Shur) -- Formation of Three-Dimensional SiGe Quantum Dot Crystals (C. Dais, P. Kser, H. Solak, Y. Ekinci, E. Deckhardt, E. Mller, D. Grtzmacher, J. Stangl, T. Suzuki, T. Fromherz, and G. Bauer) -- Robust Metallic Interconnects for Flexible Electronics and Bioelectronics (D. P. Wang, F. Y. Biga, A. Zaslavsky, and G. P. Crawford) -- 4. PHOTONICS: LIGHT TO THE RESCUE -- Silicon Photonics - Optics to the Chip at Last (D. A. B. Miller)? -- The Future of Single- to Multi-Band Detector Technologies (M. N. Abedin,I. Bhat, S. D. Gunapala, S. V. Bandara, T. F. Refaat, S. P. Sandford, and U. N. Singh) -- Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Real-Time T-Ray Imaging (Q. Hu, B. S. Williams, S. Kumar, A. W. M. Lee, Q. Qin J. L. Reno, H. C. Liu and Z. R. Wasilewski) -- Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging (E. H. Linfield, J. E. Cunningham, and A. G. Davies) -- Wavelength Tuning of Interband Cascade Lasers Based on the Stark Effect (S. Suchalkin, M. Kisin, S. Luryi, G. Belenky, F. Towner, J. D. Bruno, C. Monroy, and R. L. Tober) -- Intersubband Quantum-Box Lasers: An Update (D. Botez, M. D'Souza, G. Tsvid, A. Khandekhar, D. Xu, J. C. Shin, T. Kuech, A. Lyakh and P. Zory) -- A New Class of Semiconductors Using Quantum Confinement of Silicon in a Dielectric Matrix (M. A. Green).

Merging Nanoepitaxy and Nanophotonics (N. N. Ledentsov, V. A. Shchukin, and D. Bimberg) -- Quantum Control of the Dynamics of a Semiconductor Quantum Well (E. Paspalakis, M. Tsaousidou, and A. F. Terzis) -- List Of Contributors -- Index.