Sustainable ICT: Micro and Nanoscale Energy Management

State of the art ICT basic devices are dominated by power dissipated in heat. Presently the main effort is aimed at cooling down he heat produced during computation with specific attention to the charge transport on one hand and on the other hand on reducing he voltage operating levels up to the point of not compromising the error rate due to voltage fluctuations. In this scientific session e proposed to address the problem at a very fundamental level: what are the basic mechanisms behind the heat production? How an we take advantage of the fluctuations instead of avoiding them? These questions should convey the idea that the proposed pproach is way beyond the state of the art. It is not simply an incremental progress toward the reduction of heat production in room emperature conductors or new technology beyond CMOS. It is a new, visionary approach that challenges the very basic foundation f thermodynamics. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of FET11 conference organizers and published by Elsevier B.V.