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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. Nanoelectronics: The New Frontier?

    18 Apr 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths of only 50 nm, and billion transistor logic chips have arrived. Moore’s Law continues, but the end of MOSFET scaling is...

  2. 2005 Molecular Conduction and Sensors Workshop

    27 Jul 2005 |

    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...

  3. CMOS Nanotechnology

    07 Jul 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    In non-specialist language, this talk introduces CMOS technology used for modern electronics. Beginning with an explanation of "CMOS," the speaker relates basic system considerations of transistor design and identifies future challenges for CMOS electronics. Anyone with an elementary...

  4. ECE 453 Lecture 1: Energy Level Diagram

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

    Reference Chapter 1.1

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

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

    Reference Chapter 1.2

  6. ECE 453 Lecture 3: Quantum of Conductance

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

    Reference Chapters 1.3, 111

  7. ECE 453 Lecture 4: Charging Effects 1

    29 Aug 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 1.4

  8. ECE 453 Lecture 5: Charging Effects 2

    01 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapters 1.2 & 1.4

  9. ECE 453 Lecture 6: Charging Effect, Towards Ohm's Law

    03 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapters 1.4, 1.5 & 1.6

  10. ECE 453 Lecture 7: Hydrogen Atom

    10 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 2.1

  11. ECE 453 Lecture 8: Schrödinger Equation 1

    13 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 2.1

  12. ECE 453 Lecture 9: Schrödinger Equation 2

    15 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 2.1

  13. ECE 453 Lecture 10: Finite Difference Method 1

    17 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 2.2

  14. ECE 453 Lecture 11: Finite Difference Method 2

    20 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 2.2

  15. ECE 453 Lecture 12: Separation of Variables

    20 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapters 2.2 & 2.3

  16. ECE 453 Lecture 13: Atomic Energy Levels

    24 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapters 2.2 & 2.3

  17. ECE 453 Lecture 14: Covalent Bonds

    27 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 3.3

  18. ECE 453 Lecture 15a: Basis Functions 1

    29 Sep 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    This lecture is available only in video format.

  19. ECE 453 Lecture 16: Bandstructure 1

    01 Oct 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 5.1

  20. ECE 453 Lecture 17: Bandstructure 2

    04 Oct 2004 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

    Reference Chapter 5.1