Prospects for single molecule information processing devices

Current Applied Physics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-38

  Wada, Yasuo ^a,b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

72.80.Le; 73.50. h; 85.30.Vw; 85.30.Wx; 85.40.Ux; Conducting molecule; High performance computing; Information processing device; Micromachine; Single molecule device

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042418535     PISSN: 15671739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1739(00)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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