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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.

Learn more about molecular electronics from the resources on this site, listed below. More information on Molecular electronics can be found here.

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  1. 2003 Molecular Conduction Workshop Agenda

    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.

  2. 2003 Summer Institute Wokshop on Molecular Conduction

    09 Jul 2003 |

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

  3. 2004 Linking Bio and Nano Symposium

    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. 2004 Molecular Conduction Workshop

    08 Jul 2004 |

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

  5. 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...

  6. Is there a good resource for learning about DNA and its lab tricks for an electrical engineer?

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    I am a Masters student with a background in materials science and electrical engineering (currently Electrical Engineering) and I have an idea for a DNA-based transistor but I want to know how...

    https://nanohub.org/answers/question/788

  7. A MATLAB code for Hartree Fock calculation of H-H ground state bondlength and energy using STO-4G

    08 Aug 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Amritanshu Palaria

    Hartree Fock (HF) theory is one of the basic theories underlying the current understanding of the electronic structure of materials. It is a simple non-relativistic treatment of many electron system that accounts for the antisymmetric (fermion) nature of electronic wavefunction but does not...

  8. A Personal Quest for Information

    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...

  9. Abhisek kole

    https://nanohub.org/members/130541

  10. Abhisek Kole

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  11. ABINIT: First-Time User Guide

    09 Jun 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Benjamin P Haley

    This first-time user guide provides an introduction to using ABINIT on nanoHUB. We include a very brief summary of Density Functional Theory along with a tour of the Rappture interface. We discuss the default simulation (what happens if you don't change any inputs, and just hit...

  12. 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...

    https://nanohub.org/members/4340

  13. Amine Linked Single Molecule Circuits: Systematic Measurements & Understanding

    02 Jul 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Mark S Hybertsen

    Formation and function of well-defined linkages between organic molecules and metallic electrodes has been a key issue in the field of molecular electronics. We recently discovered that the conductance of single molecule junctions formed using gold-amine linkages can be measured reliably and...

  14. An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics

    26 Oct 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 that are less than 50 nm long, and billion transistor logic chips have arrived. Moore's Law continues, but the end of...

  15. An Experimentalists’ Perspective

    19 Dec 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Arunava Majumdar

    This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational science and engineering.

  16. Andrew Hoff

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  17. Arunangshu Debnath

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  18. Asifali Mir

    As simple as QM

    https://nanohub.org/members/214226

  19. Atomic Force Microscopy

    01 Dec 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Arvind Raman

    Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an indispensible tool in nano science for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation, and property characterization of nanostructures. This tutorial reviews some of the physics of the interaction forces between the nanoscale tip and sample, the dynamics of the...

  20. Basic Electronic Properties of DNA

    28 Jul 2005 | | Contributor(s):: M. P. Anantram