Preliminaries

The previous chapter presented an introduction to the emerging reconfigurable nanotechnologies and the related challenges associated with enabling circuits based on such technology. This chapter is dedicated to explaining the background and preliminaries needed throughout the whole book. The chapter can be broadly classified into two main parts. The first part covers different types of reconfigurable nanotechnology such as 1D and 2D devices. Then, the device physics of nanowire-based RFETs is described to explain transistor-level dynamic reconfiguration in such technology. Feasibility aspects in terms of commercial adoption for reconfigurable nanotechnology are also presented.