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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. ECE 453 Lecture 1: Energy Level Diagram

    Online Presentations | 27 Aug 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 1.1

  2. ECE 453 Lecture 20: Reciprocal Lattice

    Online Presentations | 18 Oct 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 5.2

  3. ECE 453 Lecture 21: Graphene Bandstructure

    Online Presentations | 20 Oct 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.1

  4. ECE 453 Lecture 22: Carbon Nanotubes

    Online Presentations | 22 Oct 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.1

  5. ECE 453 Lecture 23: Subbands

    Online Presentations | 25 Oct 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.1

  6. ECE 453 Lecture 24: Density of States

    Online Presentations | 27 Oct 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.2

  7. ECE 453 Lecture 25: Density of States: General Approach

    Online Presentations | 29 Oct 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.2

  8. ECE 453 Lecture 26: Density of States in Nanostructures

    Online Presentations | 01 Nov 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.2

  9. ECE 453 Lecture 27: Minimum Resistance of a Wire 1

    Online Presentations | 03 Nov 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.3

  10. ECE 453 Lecture 28: Minimum Resistance of a Wire 2

    Online Presentations | 05 Nov 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 6.3

  11. ECE 453 Lecture 29: Effective Mass Equation

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

    Reference Chapter 7.1

  12. ECE 453 Lecture 2: What Makes Electrons Flow?

    Online Presentations | 27 Aug 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 1.2

  13. ECE 453 Lecture 30: Quantum Capacitance

    Online Presentations | 10 Nov 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 7.3

  14. ECE 453 Lecture 34: Current/Voltage Characteristics

    Online Presentations | 22 Nov 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 9.1

  15. ECE 453 Lecture 35: Transmission

    Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

  16. ECE 453 Lecture 37: Wavefunction versus Green's Function

    Online Presentations | 03 Dec 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 9.1

  17. ECE 453 Lecture 38: Ohm's Law

    Online Presentations | 06 Dec 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 9.4

  18. ECE 453 Lecture 39: Coulomb Blockade

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

    Reference Chapter 3.4

  19. ECE 453 Lecture 3: Quantum of Conductance

    Online Presentations | 27 Aug 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapters 1.3, 111

  20. ECE 453 Lecture 40: Summary

    Online Presentations | 10 Dec 2004 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta