Chemistry of Nanomolecular Systems - Towards the Realization of Molecular Devices (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003)

Recently, molecular electronics, especially that utilizing single molecules, has been attracting much attention. This is mainly because the theoretical limit is approaching in the present silicon-based technology, and the development of an alternative process is strongly desired. Single-molecule electronics is aimed at a breakthrough toward the next generation of computing systems. By designing and synthesizing highly functionalized molecules of nanometer size and incorporating these molecules into electrical circuits, we shall obtain much dense and high-speed processors. The concept of single-molecule electronics was first introduced by Aviram and Ratnar in 1978. In the early 1980s, many groups all over the world had started research on molecular electronics. At that time, single-molecule manipulation techniques had not been born, and the research was mainly carried out on molecular films formed by the Langmuir Blodgett technique, a wet process, and by molecular-beam epitaxy, a dry process. A number of prototypes of switching devices and logic gates were, however, reported in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, scanning probe microscopes became popular and researchers obtained a single-molecule manipulation and evaluation tech nique. It became possible to fabricate practical devices using single molecules or small numbers of molecules. Finally, at the end of the last century, an explosion in the research field of single-molecule electronics was witnessed. In addition, studies of "biocomputing" started in the early 1980s and significant progress was achieved in the last century."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 70
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2003
Editors:	Takayoshi Nakamura • Takuya Matsumoto • Hirokazu Tada • Ken-Ichi Sugiura
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	197
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-07910-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Atomic & molecular physics Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > General
LSN:	3-642-07910-5
Barcode:	9783642079108

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