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The inside dope: new technique may speed the development of molecular electronics

Chemistry /

created Jul 26, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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) ...


Scientists demonstrate a breakthrough in fabricating molecular electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (39) | comments 0

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 ...


UIC and Japanese chemists close in on molecular switch

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created Jul 10, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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.


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Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(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 ...


Chemistry research could produce faster computers

Chemistry /

created Jul 11, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Chemists at the University of Liverpool are helping to create future electronics based on molecules for faster and smaller computers.


Researchers Make Breakthrough in Nanotechnology by Uncovering Conductive Property of Carbon-based Molecules

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 2

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 ...


Good Vibrations Probe Innards of Molecular Electronic Junctions

Good Vibrations Probe Innards of Molecular Electronic Junctions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 0

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 ...


Researchers create molecular diode

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(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 ...


Nanoscientists Describe Electron Movement through Molecules

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created Sep 29, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Researchers create molecular diode

Researchers create molecular diode

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

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 ...


Researchers Prove Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible

Researchers Prove Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible

Chemistry /

created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 1

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 ...


Launch of the first standard graphical notation for biology

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Scientists report significant advances in flexible electronics research

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

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 ...


24-carat gold 'snowflakes' improve graphene's electrical properties

Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(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.


Researchers works on single molecular diode

Physics /

created Mar 07, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 0

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 ...