Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a public-private partnership to support research and innovation in nanoelectronics, which is an emerging area in electronics that exploits the unique properties of nanometer-scale materials. The goal is to develop a radical, yet practical, successor to the basic electronic building block in today’s computers and to demonstrate its feasibility in computer circuits during the next 5-10 years.