Microelectronics has changed our world drastically: computers, mobile phones, digital television, DVD players, car navigation and security features, medical screening and health care equipment have all become essential parts of our everyday lives.  Nanoelectronics is just the next evolutionary step, as the number of transistors that can be integrated on a single chip reaches one billion, but it indeed represents a revolution marking a dramatic step forward.  - European Nanoelectronics Initiatives Advisory Council

About the Roadmap

This Roadmap Document charts direction of Nanoelectronics technology, designed to guide Malaysia Nanoscience and Nanotechnology community towards a strategic development for the advancement of the technology in the country.

A National Roadmap is a type of strategy providing broad context and high level directions on a particular area, in this case nanoelectronics, from a Malaysia perspective. It represents the Government’s position on the technology area, noting on how our Science & Technology capability should develop to best meet Malaysia’s future needs. References on various countries’ related initiatives and the status of the technology advancement and trends are useful in identifying areas of potentials. However, customization to national needs based on local scenarios is necessary to
ensure that it can be implemented and applicable to most of the players and stakeholders.

This roadmap is to complement the National Nanotechnology Roadmap developed in 2007 by MIGHT under National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) with EPU sponsorship. In that initiative, the Roadmap has identified a number of focused products and technologies to be
developed. Not to duplicate the identified areas, the Nanoelectronics Roadmap addresses the development of fundamental and applied electronics technologies for various applications enabled by nanotechnology that includes those identified in the NNI.

This is not a technological roadmap with milestones, targets & detailed research plans even though some rough timeline is indicated as general guideline. Those details need to be decided when actual projects are proposed.

By producing this Roadmap, and other Technology Roadmaps for Malaysia, the Ministry is ensuring that the strategic research investment goes to those areas that will make the most different
for Malaysia over the long term. The Roadmap also sets the scene for better co-ordination across related S&T community and the governing bodies to realize the target and mission of the initiatives. The directions in the Roadmap do not only highlight the areas we need to build but also the future skills that need to be developed.

[ Read the full roadmap document "National Nanoelectronics Roadmap" here (PDF, external link) ].
We reproduce below some diagrams from the document:

 



[ Read the full roadmap document "National Nanoelectronics Roadmap" here (PDF, external link) ].
We reproduce below some diagrams from the document:

 

[ Read the full roadmap document "National Nanoelectronics Roadmap" here (PDF, external link) ].

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