Nanotechnology and molecular electronics information at Mitre Corp. Lieber group Heath group Dekker group Nanotechnology group at IBM Bell Labs page about molecular transistors.
"People in Silicon Valley view this as off the fringe," said James Ellen, a molecular electronics researcher at the Mitre Corporation.
"It's going to be cute little laboratory experiments," James M. Tour, professor of chemistry and a molecular electronics researcher at Rice University, said of work using DNA.
Although critics have questioned nanoscientists' potential to turn out products soon (Science, 24 October, p.556), Cees Dekker, a biophysicist and molecular electronics expert at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, says the new studies underscore that basic research in molecular electronics remains vibrant.
Initially, molecular electronics would be aimed at niche markets such as flash memory for cameras.
One of the final goals of the research on molecular electronics is to control electron conduction in molecular wires and networks at will by combining appropriate molecular units.
Recent breakthroughs by researchers at IBM and Hewlett Packard in molecular electronics lead many experts to believe that Moore's law will continue to apply for perhaps another 50 years.
The reason behind forming molecular electronics may be that the society at large has a demand for smaller, faster, simpler and better technologies.
After nearly a year of topsy-turvy excitement and puzzlement over the now discredited findings of Dr. J. Hendrik Schön at Bell Labs, the field of molecular electronics is still very much alive.
B1 SCIENCE TIMES F1-10 Chip Research Progress After nearly a year of topsy-turvy excitement and puzzlement over the now discredited findings of Dr. J. Hendrik Schön at Bell Labs, the field of molecular electronics is still very much alive.
