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Survey Results for Standardization Priorities The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Energetics Inc. collaborated with IEC Technical Committee 113 to survey members of the international nanotechnology community about priorities for standards and measurements in this field. The survey elicited more than 450 completed responses from 45 countries. Energetics and NIST conducted a joint statistical analysis of the survey results and recently wrote a paper that contains details of the analysis. The paper, Priorities for Standards and Measurements to Accelerate Innovations in Nano-Electrotechnologies: Analysis of the NIST-EnergeticsIEC TC 113 Survey is available at http://www.nist.gov/eeel/ semiconductor/upload/NIST_Energetics_Survey.pdf. Nanoelectrotechnologies are expected to be one of the key technologies of the twenty-first century. They have enormous potential for the development of new products with exceptional performance. Some reports indicate that the materials and equipment market for nanoelectronics was expected to grow to more than $4 billion in 2010, up from $1.8 billion in 2005. The continued rapid growth of nanoelectrotechnology-based industries has required increased international standardization activities to support equitable and efficient business models. Effective international standards will permit the use of nanoenabled products in any nation. Analyzing the survey results by two different statistical methods gave consistent priorities for items ranked in each of five nanoelectrotechnology categories: properties, products, crosscutting technologies, general discipline areas, and stages of the linear economic model. The global consensus prioritizations suggest that IEC TC 113 should focus initially on standards and measurements for electronic and electrical properties of sensors and fabrication tools that support performance assessments of nanotechnology enabled sub-assemblies used in energy and medical products (see figure). The NIST-Energetics-IEC TC 113 Survey was the first step in developing the IEC TC 113 Nanoelectronics Standards Roadmap (INSR). Members of TC 113 will use these results as one of the inputs to the INSR that will establish a vision of market needs in terms of products and cross-cutting technologies for nanoelectrotechnologies and standards and associated measurements to accelerate innovation, fabrication, commercialization, and use of products over their entire life cycle from research to endof-useful-life/recycling/disposal. ei Herbert Bennett, NIST Semiconductor Electronics Division herbert.bennett@nist.gov IEC TC 113 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 113 (TC 113) Nanotechnology Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems is responsible for standardization of technologies relevant to electrical and electronic products and systems in the field of nanotechnology, in close cooperation with other committees of IEC and the International Organization for Standardization TC 229. According to the IEC TC 113 Strategic Policy Statement, nanoelectrotechnology standards cover the following areas at the nanoscale: sensors; electronics, materials, devices; optoelectronics; optical materials and devices; organic (opto)-electronics; magnetic materials and devices; radio frequency devices, components, and systems; electrodes with nano-structured surfaces; electrotechnical properties of nanotubes/nanowires; analytical equipment and techniques for measurement of electrotechnical properties; patterning equipment and techniques; masks and lithography; performance, durability, and reliability assessment for nanoelectronics; fuel cells; and bio-electronic applications. For more information, see http://www.nano.gov Schematic of the correlation of the highest priority cross-cutting technology item sensors with the ranked items in the products category 10 NEMA electroindustry • August 09
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