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Bridge From Conventional To Molecular Electronics Possible

Posted March 20, 2008 8:35 AM

From ScienceDaily: Latest Science News:

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 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.

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Re: Bridge From Conventional To Molecular Electronics Possible

03/20/2008 7:04 PM

I'm sure I read about this, during the second half of 2007.

Either that, or a case of déjà vue.

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