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Biomimetics Through Nanoelectronics

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In the past half-century, advances in electronics have been driven by increases in their complexity and performance, and decreases in unit size (Moore’s law) (Moore in Electronics 38:114, 1965 [1]). The mainstream microelectronics industry continues to provide ever-increasing performance and functionality and brings new technologies in computing, memory, and telecommunication that change the way we live [2]. These developments have in turn spurred interest in “macroelectronics,” which requires the low-cost distribution of nanoelectronic units and circuits over the largest possible area in unconventional configurations, for instance on flexible substrates and in 3D geometries (Reuss et al. in MRS Bull 31:447, 2006 [3]).

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Liu, J. (2018). Introduction. In: Biomimetics Through Nanoelectronics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68609-7_1

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