Molecular Electronics: Commercial Insights, Chemistry, Devices, Architecture and Programming

James M. Tour9789812382696, 981-238-269-0, 981-238-341-7

An in-depth discussion of molecular electronics in an easy-to-understand manner, designed for 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 for the aspiring academic corporate founder and the business CEO 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 1
Cover……Page 2
Preface……Page 9
Contents……Page 11
1.1 Introduction……Page 15
1.2 Commercial Challenges of Molecular Electronics……Page 16
1.2.1. Investments in Molecular Electronics……Page 17
1.2.2. Molecular Electronics Market Insertion Strategy……Page 22
1.3 Molecular Electronics- Focused Companies……Page 25
1.4 Advice from the Trenches for the Wannabe Corporate Founder……Page 30
1.5 From a Front Row Observer to the Aspiring CEO of an Academically Founded Startup……Page 36
2.1 Introduction……Page 39
2.3 Present Microelectronics Technology……Page 43
2.4 Monetary and Fundamental Physical Limitations of Present Technology……Page 44
3.1 Iterative Approaches to oligo( 2,5- thiophene ethyny1ene) s Molecular Wires, Properties and Experimental Details……Page 47
3.2 Iterative Approaches to oligo( 1,4- phenylene ethyny1ene) s Molecular Wires, Properties and Experimental Details……Page 70
3.3 Shorter Phenylene- Based Molecular Wires and Devices and Experimental Details……Page 124
3.4 Highly Functional Molecular Wires and Devices with Diverse Alligator Clips and Experimental Details……Page 190
3.5 Combinatorial Routes to Molecular Wires and Devices and Experimental Details……Page 211
4.1 Self- Assembly and Molecular Ordering……Page 243
4.2 Probe Addressing of Molecules……Page 246
4.3 Switching and Memory in Molecular Bundles……Page 252
4.4 Large Area Molecular Electronic Devices: The Large Area Contact Problem……Page 263
4.5 Summary……Page 264
5.1 Introduction……Page 265
5.2 Summary……Page 279
6.1 NanoCell……Page 280
6.2 Training a NanoCell……Page 293
6.3 Trained Nanocells……Page 312
6.4 NanoCell Proofs……Page 331
6.5 Future Work……Page 360
6.6 Conclusions……Page 365
Bibliography……Page 367
Index……Page 379
About the Author……Page 385