A 160-kilobit molecular electronic memory patterned at 1011 bits per square centimetre

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7126, 2007, Pages 414-417

  Green, Jonathan E ^a   Wook Choi, Jang ^a   Boukai, Akram ^a   Bunimovich, Yuri ^a   Johnston Halperin, Ezekiel ^a,d   Deionno, Erica ^a   Luo, Yi ^a,c   Sheriff, Bonnie A ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Shik Shin, Young ^a   Tseng, Hsian Rong ^b   Stoddart, J Fraser ^b   Heath, James R ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33846491447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05462     Document Type: Article

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