FENA embraces the current opportunity to create and explore the next generation of nanoscale semiconductor technology to the borders of ultimate CMOS and beyond: inventing the heterogeneous interfaces of new nanosystems, enabling a combination of biological and molecular functions, and revolutionizing the paradigms of information processing and sensing. These new nanostructured materials will provide the basis for the continued expansion of the semiconductor industry and the creation of new applications of monolithically integrated (CMOS, molecular and biomolecular) nanosystems.

FENA’s high impact, high risk and long term (>15 years) agenda makes it a unique research center. Its focused mission and objective is in line with the critical nanomaterial challenges highlighted in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) and those facing today’s seminconductor industry.