The role of field coupling in nano-scale cellular nonlinear networks

In this paper we review some newly-emerging nanotechnologies, including new ways of imaging and manipulating matter on the nanometer scale. Electronic devices based on metallic and magnetic nanoscale dots and molecular structures have been suggested, but no technologically viable architecture for nanoelectronic circuit integration has emerged. The natural architecture on the nanoscale is near-neighbor cellular networking, and promising alternative ways of integrating nanodevices by field coupling, i.e. either by Coulomb coupling or magnetic coupling are being explored. In this paper, new architectures for such field-coupled nanocircuits are reviewed.