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Tags: molecular electronics

In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman presented an amazing talk entitled There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, in which he proposed making very small circuits out of molecules. More than forty years later, people are starting to realize his vision. Thanks to Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) probes and "self-assembly" fabrication techniques, it is now possible to connect electrodes to a molecule and measure its conductance. In 2004, Mark Hersam et al. reported the first experimental measurement of a molecular resonant tunneling device on silicon. This new field of Molecular Electronics may someday provide the means to miniaturize circuits beyond the limits of silicon, keeping Moore's Law in force for many years to come.

Learn more about molecular electronics from the resources on this site, listed below.

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Online Presentations

  • 10.0 Ranking Lundstrom: Moore's Law Forever?

    Moore's Law Forever?

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    Contributor(s) Mark Lundstrom
    Date 10 Aug. 2005
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    In 1965, Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors on a silicon chip doubled every technology generation (12 months at that time, currently 18-24 months). He predicted that this trend would continue for a while. Forty years later, Moore's Law continues to hold. Since the number of ...

  • 10.0 Ranking Lundstrom: Simple Theory of the Ballistic ...

    Simple Theory of the Ballistic MOSFET

    Type Online Presentations
    Contributor(s) Mark Lundstrom
    Date 19 Oct. 2005
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    Silicon nanoelectronics has become silicon nanoelectronics, but we still analyze, design, and think about MOSFETs in more or less in the same way that we did 30 years ago. In this talk, I will describe a simple analysis of the ballistic MOSFET. No MOSFET is truly ballistic, but ...

  • 10.0 Ranking Raman: Atomic Force Microscopy

    Atomic Force Microscopy

    Type Online Presentations
    Contributor(s) Arvind Raman
    Date 29 Nov. 2005
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    Atomic Force Microscopy is has become an indispensible tool in nanoscience for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation and property characterization of nanostructures. In this tutorial, we will review the physics of the interaction forces between the nanoscale tip and sample, the dynamics ...

  • 10.0 Ranking Datta: ECE 453 Lecture 1: Energy Level ...

    ECE 453 Lecture 1: Energy Level Diagram

    Type Online Presentations
    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 17 May. 2005
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    Reference Chapter 1.1

  • 10.0 Ranking Datta: ECE 453 Lecture 3: Quantum of ...

    ECE 453 Lecture 3: Quantum of Conductance

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    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 17 May. 2005
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    Reference Chapters 1.3, 111

  • 10.0 Ranking Datta: ECE 453 Lecture 16: Bandstructure 1

    ECE 453 Lecture 16: Bandstructure 1

    Type Online Presentations
    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 17 May. 2005
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    Reference Chapter 5.1

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Courses

  • 10.0 Ranking Datta: Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics

    Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics

    Type Courses
    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta, Behtash Behinaein
    Date 07 Dec. 2005
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    Welcome to the ECE 453 lectures. The development of "nanotechnology" has made it possible to engineer material and devices on a length scale as small as several nanometers (atomic distances are ~ 0.1 nm). The properties of such "nanostructures" cannot be described in terms of macroscopic ...

  • 9.4 Ranking Datta: Quantum Transport: Atom to ...

    Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor

    Type Courses
    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 07 Aug. 2006
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    The development of "nanotechnology" has made it possible to engineer materials and devices on a length scale as small as several nanometers (atomic distances are ~ 0.1 nm). The properties of such "nanostructures" cannot be described in terms of macroscopic parameters like mobility and diffusion ...

Learning Modules

  • 7.7 Ranking Vasileska: PN Junction Theory and Modeling

    PN Junction Theory and Modeling

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    Contributor(s) Dragica Vasileska
    Date 14 Sep. 2005
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    Learn the basics of PN junction theory. Analyze step junctions and linearly-graded junctions both analytically and numerically. See how the depletion region gives rise to a built-in voltage, and also affects the capacitance under AC analysis. Study DC current-voltage characteristics, including ...

  • 6.1 Ranking Sinnott: Introduction to Nanofluidics

    Introduction to Nanofluidics

    Type Learning Modules
    Contributor(s) Susan Sinnott
    Date 26 May. 2005
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    The purpose of this learning module is to introduce students to some fundamental concepts in Nanofluidics. The module includes a pretest (without keys), a presentation, reading materials on Nanofluidics, links to the REBO simulation tool on the nanoHUB along with necessary instructions for running ...

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  • 7.7 Ranking Lair: Computational Chemistry: An ...

    Computational Chemistry: An Introduction to Molecular Dynamic Simulations

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    Contributor(s) Shalayna Lair
    Date 13 Dec. 2006
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    This module gives a brief overview of computational chemistry, a branch of chemistry concerned with theoretically determining properties of molecules. The fundamentals of how to conduct a computational project are discussed as well as the variety of different models that can be used. Because of ...

  • 6.9 Ranking Santiago: Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

    Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

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    Contributor(s) Lynn Marie Santiago
    Date 13 Dec. 2006
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    This is the fourth contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. This presentation is presented at the undergraduate level and introduces spectroscopic ellipsometry, which is one of the most important characterization ...

Animations

  • 7.7 Ranking LSPM Team: Scanning Probe Microscopes

    Scanning Probe Microscopes

    Type Animations
    Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team
    Date 15 Mar. 2005
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    Laura explains how scanning probe microscopes can be used to create images of small devices, molecules, and even atoms! A large-scale version of the scanning probe microscope is built out of Legos to show the basic principles.

  • 6.5 Ranking LSPM Team: Feasibility of Molecular ...

    Feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing

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    Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team
    Date 15 Mar. 2005
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    Martin and Laura have an interesting debate about the feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing. Can molecular assemblers be developed to create new materials, new devices, and even macroscopic objects? Find out... If Martin ever wakes up!

Publications

  • 8.4 Ranking Lundstrom: Notes on the Ballistic MOSFET

    Notes on the Ballistic MOSFET

    Type Publications
    Contributor(s) Mark Lundstrom
    Date 21 Nov. 2005
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    When analyzing semiconductor devices, the traditional approach is to assume that carriers scatter frequently from ionized impurities, phonons, surface roughness, etc. so that the average distance between scattering events (the so-called mean-free-path, λ) is much shorter than the device. ...

  • 7.3 Ranking Zahid: Electrical Conduction through ...

    Electrical Conduction through Molecules

    Type Publications
    Contributor(s) Ferdows Zahid, Magnus Paulsson, Supriyo Datta
    Date 08 Jul. 2003
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    In recent years, several experimental groups have reported measurements of the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of individual or small numbers of molecules. Even three-terminal measurements showing evidence of transistor action has been reported using carbon nanotubes as well as self-assembled ...

  • 6.0 Ranking Paulsson: Resistance of a Molecule

    Resistance of a Molecule

    Type Publications
    Contributor(s) Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid, Supriyo Datta
    Date 29 Apr. 2003
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    In recent years, several experimental groups have reported measurements of the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of individual or small numbers of molecules. Even three-terminal measurements showing evidence of transistor action has been reported using carbon nanotubes [1, 2] as well as ...

  • 0.0 Ranking Datta: Electrical Resistance: an ...

    Electrical Resistance: an Atomistic View

    Type Publications
    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 26 Oct. 2006
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    This tutorial article presents a “bottom-up�? view of electrical resistance starting from something really small, like a molecule, and then discussing the issues that arise as we move to bigger conductors. Remark ably enough, no serious quantum mechanics is needed to understand electrical ...

Downloads

  • 10.0 Ranking Xie: Molecular Workbench: An Interface ...

    Molecular Workbench: An Interface to the Molecular World

    Type Downloads
    Contributor(s) Charles Xie
    Date 31 Aug. 2006
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    The Molecular Workbench software is a free, open-source modeling and authoring program specifically designed for use in science education. Powered by a set of real-time molecular simulation engines that compute and visualize the motion of particles interacting through force fields, in both 2D and ...

  • 9.7 Ranking Palaria: A MATLAB code for Hartree Fock ...

    A MATLAB code for Hartree Fock calculation of H-H ground state bondlength and energy using STO-4G

    Type Downloads
    Contributor(s) Amritanshu Palaria
    Date 08 Aug. 2006
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    Hartree Fock (HF) theory is one of the basic theories underlying the current understanding of the electronic structure of materials. It is a simple non-relativistic treatment of many electron system that accounts for the antisymmetric (fermion) nature of electronic wavefunction but does not account ...

  • 8.8 Ranking Datta: MATLAB Scripts for "Quantum ...

    MATLAB Scripts for "Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor"

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    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 15 Mar. 2005
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    Tinker with quantum transport models! Download the MATLAB scripts used to demonstrate the physics described in Supriyo Datta's book Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor. These simple models are less than a page of code, and yet they reproduce much of the fundamental physics observed in experiments.

Workshops

  • 10.0 Ranking   2005 Molecular Conduction and ...

    2005 Molecular Conduction and Sensors Workshop

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    Contributor(s)
    Date 25 May. 2005
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    This is the 3rd in a series of annual workshops on Molecular Conduction. The prior workshops have been at Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN (2003) and Nothwestern University, Evanston, IL (2004). The workshop has been an informal and open venue for discussing new results, key challenges, and ...

  • 9.8 Ranking   2003 Summer Institute Wokshop on ...

    2003 Summer Institute Wokshop on Molecular Conduction

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    Contributor(s)
    Date 14 Apr. 2004
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    The tutorials supplied below were part of the Molecular Conduction Workshop held at Purdue University in July of 2003.

  • 7.9 Ranking   2004 Linking Bio and Nano Symposium

    2004 Linking Bio and Nano Symposium

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    Date 21 Jul. 2004
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    Explore ways universities can work together in Bio-NanoTechnology. Discover research opportunities in this emerging area. Network with professionals and researchers who share common interests. Hear the latest on current research topics

  • 7.7 Ranking   2004 Molecular Conduction Workshop

    2004 Molecular Conduction Workshop

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    Date 05 Jan. 2005
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    The tutorials supplied below were part of the Molecular Conduction Workshop held at Northwestern University in July of 2004.

  • 7.2 Ranking   SURI 2003 Conference

    SURI 2003 Conference

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    Contributor(s)
    Date 21 Apr. 2004
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    2003 SURI Conference Proceedings

  • 0.0 Ranking   IWCE 2004 Held at Purdue

    IWCE 2004 Held at Purdue

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    Contributor(s)
    Date 08 Feb. 2005
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    IEEE and NCN sponsored the 10th International Workshop of Computational Electronics at Purdue, October 24-27, with the theme "The field of Computational Electronics - Looking back and looking ahead."

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Notes

  • 10.0 Ranking gupta: Electronics at Nano scale

    Electronics at Nano scale

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    Contributor(s) Rakesh Kumar gupta
    Date 06 Apr. 2007
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    Current research on nanoelectronics is extremely diverse. Exiting technology of optical lithography used for the fabrication of electronics components,devices and systms already reached to their extreme limits. The devises with minimum feature dimensions less than 50nm and below this are almost ...

  • 0.0 Ranking Datta: Quantum Transport: Atom to ...

    Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor - Questions & Answers

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    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 23 Mar. 2005
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    Welcome to the Question and Answer page for the online class Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor.

  • 0.0 Ranking   2003 Molecular Conduction Workshop ...

    2003 Molecular Conduction Workshop Agenda

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    Contributor(s)
    Date 13 Apr. 2004
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    This workshop brought together leading groups in this field to discuss status and key challenges in molecular electronics. Both experimental and theoretical/modeling efforts were discussed.

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