Following an extensive survey of key executives in the semiconductor industry, NanoMarkets analysts believe that there are rapidly emerging opportunities for firms building new types of lithography and direct-write equipment for the semiconductor industry and "nanotools" more generally. This report quantifies the promise of these new production modes, pointing out the market segments where they have the greatest revenue potential. It is the next in a series of reports produced by NanoMarkets that examines the emerging nanoelectronics market place.

The report shows how far each of these new technologies have come towards commercialization and establishes where they are being used today in R&D and pilot plants and how they will be utilized in the future in volume production to supplement the use conventional semiconductor lithography methods. The report also sets out where new demand for novel manufacturing modes is emerging as the result of the industry's adoption of new materials/technology platforms - such as spintronics, plastic electronics, molectronics and nanotube/nanowire electronics, low- and high-k materials. Finally, this report identifies new business revenues for next generation equipment of this kind that is appearing outside the semiconductor industry.

Readers of this report will come away with a clear and realistic idea of what industry timetables are for the use of new production technologies, who will be the early adopters and which equipments firms are the pioneers in this area. We also examine equipment manufacturers' strategies in the vibrant new market for alternative manufacturing technologies and set out where firms are having demonstrable successes. NanoMarkets believes that there have never been so many opportunities for new entrants to stake out an emerging segment of the semiconductor equipment market. This report provides a guide to those opportunities as part of NanoMarkets core mission to establish where the new business will come from as the result of commercialization of the latest advanced technologies in electronics, semiconductors and IT

Who Is This Report Intended For?

• Firms throughout the semiconductor equipment market who want to understand what the challenges and potential of "nanoelectronics" will mean to them. Firms impacted by the changes to come will include everyone from firms that make wafer cleaning gear, through metrology equipment companies, to those who make the equipment from which the final chip emerges.
• Advanced materials, semiconductor and electronics companies who need to understand the timetable for transition to new production modes and how this will help them create new kinds of products.
• Investment bankers, venture capitalists and private investors who need a realistic appraisal of the revenue potential and timeframes associated with emerging technologies in the semiconductor equipment industry.

• Executive Summary
• Chapter One: Introduction
  • 1.1 Background to report
  • 1.1.1 Rising fab costs
  • 1.1.2 Materials issues
  • 1.2 Scope of report
  • 1.3 Methodology of report
  • 1.4 Plan of report
• Chapter Two: New Production Techniques
  • 4.1 Lithography
  • 4.1.1 Immersion lithography
  • 4.1.2 EUV lithography
  • 4.1.3 EPL lithography
  • 4.1.4 Dip-pen nanolithography
  • 4.1.3 Nanoimprint lithography
  • 4.2 Direct-write
  • 4.2.1 E-beam and i-beam
  • 4.2.2 Laser
  • 4.3 Molecular beam epitaxy
  • 4.4 Vapor-deposition
  • 4.5 Spin coating
  • 4.6 Thermal imaging
  • 4.7 "Ink-Jet" approaches
  • 4.8 Self-assembly and molecular manufacturing
  • 4.9 Special tools for nanotechnology and R&D
• Chapter Three: New Opportunities from Resolving Manufacturing Challenges
  • 2.1 Challenges for conventional silicon microelectronics
  • 2.1.1 Moore's Law and scaling
  • 2.1.2 Fab costs
  • 2.1.3 Packaging and thermal issues
  • 2.1.4 Interconnects
  • 2.1.5 Metrology
  • 2.1.6 Clean room issues
  • 2.1.7 Wafer processing issues
• Chapter Four: New Materials, Architectural Trends and their Demands for New Production Methods
  • 3.1 New architectures
  • 3.2 Low-k and High-k materials
  • 3.3 III-V materials
  • 3.4 Carbon nanotubes and nanowires
  • 3.5 Spintronics
  • 3.6 Molectronics
  • 3.7 Silicon photonics
  • 3.8 Other material solutions
• Chapter Five: Eight-Year Forecasts of Next-Generation Production Equipment
  • 5.1 Forecasting Methodology
  • 5.2 Analysis by Type of Market Environment
  • 5.2.1 Mainstream manufacturing
  • 5.2.2 Pilot plants
  • 5.2.3 R&D
  • 5.2.4 Applications outside the semiconductor industry
  • 5.3 Lithography equipment forecasts
  • 5.4 Direct-write equipment
  • 5.5 Self-assembly opportunities
  • 5.6 Specialized equipment for nanoelectronics