Molecular electronics: commercial insights, chemistry, devices, architecture, and programming

James M. Tour9812382690, 9789812382696, 9812383417, 9789812383419

This book presents an in-depth discussion on molecular electronics in an easy-to-understand manner, aiming at chemists, computer scientists, surface scientists, physicists, and applied mathematicians. Lighter overviews are provided for the science-minded layperson and the high tech entrepreneur in this nanoscale science. The author has included a detailed synthetic chemistry treasure chest, protocols of self-assembling routes for bottom-up fabrication atop silicon platforms, representative current-voltage and memory readouts from molecular devices, and overviews of present architectural and mathematical approaches to programming molecular computing machines. The investment and commercial insertion landscape is painted along with a “Who’s Who” in the molecular electronics business space. Advice and forewarnings are provided in a practical yet witty manner for the aspiring academic corporate founder and the business CEO wannabe seeking to establish a high tech company while wading through the idiosyncratic morass of university personalities and university-owned intellectual property.

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Table of contents :
TeamLiB……Page 0
Cover……Page 1
Preface……Page 8
Contents……Page 10
1.1 Introduction……Page 14
1.2 Commercial Challenges of Molecular Electronics……Page 15
1.2.1. Investments in Molecular Electronics……Page 16
1.2.2. Molecular Electronics Market Insertion Strategy……Page 21
1.3 Molecular Electronics- Focused Companies……Page 24
1.4 Advice from the Trenches for the Wannabe Corporate Founder……Page 29
1.5 From a Front Row Observer to the Aspiring CEO of an Academically Founded Startup……Page 35
2.1 Introduction……Page 38
2.3 Present Microelectronics Technology……Page 42
2.4 Monetary and Fundamental Physical Limitations of Present Technology……Page 43
3.1 Iterative Approaches to oligo( 2,5- thiophene ethyny1ene) s Molecular Wires, Properties and Experimental Details……Page 46
3.2 Iterative Approaches to oligo( 1,4- phenylene ethyny1ene) s Molecular Wires, Properties and Experimental Details……Page 69
3.3 Shorter Phenylene- Based Molecular Wires and Devices and Experimental Details……Page 123
3.4 Highly Functional Molecular Wires and Devices with Diverse Alligator Clips and Experimental Details……Page 189
3.5 Combinatorial Routes to Molecular Wires and Devices and Experimental Details……Page 210
4.1 Self- Assembly and Molecular Ordering……Page 242
4.2 Probe Addressing of Molecules……Page 245
4.3 Switching and Memory in Molecular Bundles……Page 251
4.4 Large Area Molecular Electronic Devices: The Large Area Contact Problem……Page 262
4.5 Summary……Page 263
5.1 Introduction……Page 264
5.2 Summary……Page 278
6.1 NanoCell……Page 279
6.2 Training a NanoCell……Page 292
6.3 Trained Nanocells……Page 311
6.4 NanoCell Proofs……Page 330
6.5 Future Work……Page 359
6.6 Conclusions……Page 364
Bibliography……Page 366
Index……Page 378
About the Author……Page 384