An overview of Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI)

Abstract

Launched in 2006, Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) is jointly funded by the US semiconductor industry and government agencies to support university research to explore non-conventional low-energy technologies that can outperform CMOS on critical applications in ten years and beyond. Alternative state variables, novel mechanisms, and emerging materials have been investigated to achieve low-power devices. As an academia-industry-government collaborative research platform, NRI has built up valuable learning to guide beyond-CMOS research in the future and demonstrated several promising technologies that are worth further exploration.