Issue 22, 2018

Quo vadis, unimolecular electronics?

Abstract

This paper reviews the present status of unimolecular electronics (UME). The field started in the 1970s with a hope that some day organic molecules (∼2 nm in size), when used as electronic components, would challenge Si-based inorganic electronics in ultimate-high-density integrated circuits. The technological push to ever smaller inorganic device sizes (Moore's “law”) was driven by a profit motive and by vast investments. UME, the underfunded pauper, may have lost that “race to the bottom”, but some excellent science is left to be done.

Graphical abstract: Quo vadis, unimolecular electronics?

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
06 Mar 2018
Accepted
17 May 2018
First published
18 May 2018

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 10316-10332

Quo vadis, unimolecular electronics?

R. M. Metzger, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 10316 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR01905C

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