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Energy harvesting from vibration and heat differentials are generating commercial operations. Micropelt, a spin-off from Infineon, and Nextreme Thermal Solutions are converting heat differentials into electricity, while Perpetuum, Lumedyne Technologies and MicroGen are generating electricity from vibrations.

As conventional microelectronics wrestles with the problem of leakage, which has ended one of the benefits of shrinking – the automatic reduction in power - the hope is that new ways of manipulating atoms and molecules will permit the further scaling of electronic devices.

Could 2008 be the year when nanotechnology starts to impact on the semiconductor industry?