Tags: molecular electronics

Description

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.

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Online Presentations (101-111 of 111)

  1. Electrical Resistance: An Atomistic View

    Online Presentations | 09 Jul 2003 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Electrical Resistance: An Atomistic View

  2. Huckel-IV on the nanoHub

    Online Presentations | 09 Jul 2003 | Contributor(s):: Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid, Supriyo Datta

    Huckel-IV on the nanoHub

  3. Understanding Molecular Conduction

    Online Presentations | 08 Jul 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    It is common to differentiate between two ways of building a nanodevice: a topdown approach where we start from something big and chisel out what we want and abottom-up approach where we start from something small like atoms or molecules andassemble what we want. When it comes to describing...

  4. Quantum Chemistry Part I

    Online Presentations | 08 Jul 2004 | Contributor(s):: Mark Ratner

    This tutorial will provide an overview of electronic structure calculations from achemist's perspective. This will include a review of the basic electronic structuretheories.

  5. Probing Molecular Conduction with Scanning Probe Microscopy

    Online Presentations | 08 Jul 2004 | Contributor(s):: Mark Hersam

    This tutorial will provide an overview of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) andits application towards problems in molecular conduction. In an effort to communicatethe power and limitations of these instruments, the tutorial will describe designconsiderations and reveal the detailed construction of...

  6. A Personal Quest for Information

    Online Presentations | 19 Feb 2004 | Contributor(s):: Vwani P. Roychowdhury

    This talk will report results and conclusions from my personal investigations into several different disciplines, carried out with the unifying intent of uncovering some of the fundamental principles that govern representation, processing, and the communication of information. The specific...

  7. Molecular Electronics Pathway for Molecular Memory Devices

    Online Presentations | 06 Feb 2004 | Contributor(s):: Ranganathan Shashidhar

    We have been developing a scale molecular electronic device using a 30 nm sized plant virus particle as the scaffold. This talk describes the bioengineering aspects of how the virus particle is converted to a molecular electronic circuit and its electrical characterization. The talk describes...

  8. Macromolecular Simulation: A Computational Perspective

    Online Presentations | 16 Feb 2004 | Contributor(s):: Robert D. Skeel

    The study of cold atomic gases is exploding, driven largely by the rapid experimental developments. This field has become highly interdisciplinary, connecting a great variety of interesting problems: weakly and strongly correlated quantum condensed matters, nuclear matters, and physics of low...

  9. Electronic Transport Through Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Online Presentations | 25 Feb 2004 | Contributor(s):: Takhee Lee

    Characterization of charge transport in molecular scale electronic devices has to date shown exquisite sensitivity to specifics of device fabrication and preparation. Thus, intrinsic molecular band structure has been problematic to extract from published results. Here we demonstrate...

  10. Contacting Molecules - Chemistry in Molecular Electronics

    Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2004 | Contributor(s):: Ilona Kretzschmar

    The study of the basic electron transport mechanism through molecular systems has been made accessible by fabrication techniques that create metallic contacts to a small number of organic molecules. In my talk, I will discuss some of the groundbreaking discoveries such as the measurement of the...

  11. Inelastic Effects in Molecular Conduction

    Online Presentations | 12 Apr 2004 | Contributor(s):: Abraham Nitzan

    Molecular electron transfer, as treated by the Marcus theory, strongly depends on nuclear motion as a way to achieve critical configurations in which charge rearrangement is possible. The electron tunneling process itself is assumed to occur in a static nuclear environment. In the application of...