http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a new technique that could lead to the development of inexpensive, biodegradable and versatile electronic components, which are made of single layers of organic (carbon-based) molecules. http://www.physorg.com/news104660890.html Chemistry Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:28:10 EST news104660890 Scientists from Philips Research and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) have for the first time fabricated arrays of molecular diodes on standard substrates with high yields. The molecular diodes are as thin as one molecule (1.5 nm), and suitable for integration into standard plastic electronics circuits. Based on construction principles known as molecular self-organization, molecular electronics is a promising new approach for manufacturing electronics circuits in addition to today`s conventional semiconductor processing. Details of the technology are presented in the 4 May 2006 issue of Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news65974137.html Nanotechnology Thu, 04 May 2006 15:08:57 EST news65974137 The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better -- and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules. http://www.physorg.com/news103291809.html Chemistry Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:10:09 EST news103291809 (PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when things get really small, the regular rules of Newtonian physics quit and the weird rules of quantum mechanics kick in. When that happens, as physics professor and chair Ravindra Pandey puts it, "everything goes haywire." http://www.physorg.com/news169397882.html Nanotechnology Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:58:43 EST news169397882 Chemists at the University of Liverpool are helping to create future electronics based on molecules for faster and smaller computers. http://www.physorg.com/news71830373.html Chemistry Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:52:53 EST news71830373 University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic -or carbon-based -molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as metal. Detailed in the April 18 edition of Science, the finding is a breakthrough in developing nanotechnology that provides a new strategy for designing electronic materials, including inexpensive and multifunctional organic conductors that have long been considered the key to smaller, cheaper, and faster technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news127659085.html Nanotechnology Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:51:25 EST news127659085 Using an unusual spectroscopic technique, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have provided the most convincing evidence yet that current is flowing through a simple silicon-based molecular `sandwich,` which is the most basic structure of molecular electronics. The work is an important step toward realizing the dream of organic molecule-based electronics that could enable much denser, cheaper computer memories and other replacements of traditional electronic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news123950368.html Nanotechnology Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:39:28 EST news123950368 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University`s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described in this week`s online edition of Nature Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news175415776.html Nanotechnology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:37:08 EST news175415776 Molecular electronics is the ultimate miniaturization of electronics. In this area of research, scientists have been studying the movement of electrons through individual molecules in an effort to understand how they might control and use the process in new technologies. Computers and thousands of other devices could become vastly faster, smaller and more reliable than conventional transistor-based (wire-based) electronics. http://www.physorg.com/news6864.html Nanotechnology Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:30:54 EST news6864 Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described in this week's online edition of Nature Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news174643920.html Nanotechnology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:13:07 EST news174643920 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have set the stage for building the `evolutionary link` between the microelectronics of today built from semiconductor compounds and future generations of devices made largely from complex organic molecules. In an upcoming paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a NIST team demonstrates that a single layer of organic molecules can be assembled on the same sort of substrate used in conventional microchips. http://www.physorg.com/news125086047.html Chemistry Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:07:27 EST news125086047 Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and their colleagues in 30 labs worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information - the biology equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. This visual language should make it easier to exchange complex information, so that models are accurate, efficient and readily understandable. The new standard, called the Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN), is published today in Nature Biotechnology. http://www.physorg.com/news169209530.html Biology Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:01 EST news169209530 In work that represents a key step toward bringing bendable, flexible electronic devices into our homes and businesses, Stanford University researchers have created very thin, high-performance transistors using networks of carbon nanotubes deposited onto flexible surfaces. http://www.physorg.com/news164510932.html Nanotechnology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:10:02 EST news164510932 (PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene. http://www.physorg.com/news174590038.html Nanotechnology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:15:28 EST news174590038 Researchers from the University of South Florida, the University of Chicago and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) have recently developed the principles of operation and completed an experimental testing of a single molecule for use as a diode. A paper explaining their research has just been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters by the American Physical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news11469.html Physics Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:45:00 EST news11469