Tags: molecular electronics

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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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  1. 2004 Molecular Conduction Workshop

    Workshops | 08 Jul 2004

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

  2. Adina Scott

    Adina Scott received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in December of 2008. Her doctoral research focused on silicon surface chemistry for electronic device applications. She...

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  3. 2004 Linking Bio and Nano Symposium

    Workshops | 26 Jul 2004

    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

  4. SURI 2003 Conference

    Workshops | 07 Aug 2003

    2003 SURI Conference Proceedings

  5. 2003 Summer Institute Wokshop on Molecular Conduction

    Workshops | 09 Jul 2003

    The tutorials supplied below were part of the Molecular Conduction Workshop held at Purdue University in July of 2003.

  6. 2003 Molecular Conduction Workshop Agenda

    Presentation Materials | 09 Jul 2003

    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.

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  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. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Electrical Conduction through Molecules

    Papers | 08 Jul 2003 | Contributor(s):: Ferdows Zahid, Magnus Paulsson, Supriyo Datta

    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...

  14. Resistance of a Molecule

    Papers | 29 Apr 2003 | Contributor(s):: Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid, Supriyo Datta

    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...

  15. Tugrul Senger Research Group (M.E.S.T. Model)

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    We use theoretical and computational tool to study spintronic, quantum transport phenomena in molecular and nanoscale systems. We are located at Ä°zmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.

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