Roadmapping of Nanoelectronics for the New Electronics Industry

This paper is dedicated to a review of the international effort to map the future of nanoelectronics from materials to systems for the new electronics industry. The following sections are highlighted: the Roadmap structure with the international teams, the methodology and historical evolution, the various eras of scaling, the new ecosystems and computer industry, the evolving supply chain, the development of SoC and SiP, the advent of the Internet of Everything and the 5G communications, the dramatic increase of data centers, the power challenge, the technology fusion, heterogeneous and system integration, the emerging technologies, devices and computing architectures, and the main challenges for future applications.

Remarkable piezoelectric properties in thin films of cellulose nanofibers after electrochemical poling

Internet-of-everything (IoE) is defined as networked connections of things, people, data and processes. IoE nodes, preferably shaped as printed flexible systems, serves as the frontier outpost of the Internet and comprises devices to record and regulate states and functions. To power distributed IoE nodes in an ecofriendly manner, technology to scavenge energy from ambience and self-powered devices are developed. For this, piezoelectricity is regarded as a key-property, however current technology typically based on polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) co-polymers, are expensive and produced via toxic protocols. We report piezoelectric characteristics of electrochemically poled cellulose nanofiber (CNFs) thin films processed from water dispersions. Poling these films at humid conditions cause breaking and reorientation of CNF segments, which results in enhanced crystal alignment rendering the resulting material piezoelectric. Generators based on poled CNF show similar piezoelectric voltage and coefficient, here measured to d33 = 46 pm/V, as for devices including PVDF copolymer layers of similar thickness. Our findings promise for low cost and printable ecofriendly piezoelectric-powered IoE nodes.

Internet of Everything: A Global Solution to Digital world

The trend of the digital world is the transition from machine-to-machine, machine-to-people, and information technology to human technology with expanded digital to the maturity stage of the internet of everything. The (IoE) is the addition of connectivity and intelligence to every device in order to give them special functions. It embraces four components, namely, people, process, data, and things, and also four technical points of view which are smartness, interconnectivity, big data, and semantic interoperability to deploy the solutions that offer programmability, improved flexibility, and enhanced policy management by the various private and public sectors. The architecture of IoE includes applications, service platform, Internet, gateways, communications, and nodes and attract a security need that will be ubiquitous and able to protect the devices, applications, networks, data, users, and things that make up the Internet of Everything. These systems work collaboratively and smartly with each other and perform the desired task. IoE will be a radical shift to think on how we live, solve the problem, create value, secure environment to keep people, data, processes, and things under digital hamlet. The network capabilities will create new experiences, capabilities, and economic opportunities for individuals, businesses, and governments as a solution to the digital world. The internet of everything is a philosophy of one thing, which is everything.