Emulation of molecular programmability using microelectronics programmable devices

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 16254-16258

  Gimenez, Alejandro J ^a,b   Luna Bárcenas, Gabriel ^b   Seminario, Jorge M ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Estudios Avanzados del Instituto   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LOGICAL OPERATIONS; MULTIPLE-VALUED; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; PROGRAMMABILITY; PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES; SINGLE MOLECULE; SMALL SIZE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

EXPERIMENTS; MICROELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRON DEVICES;

EID: 70349121227     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp9050325     Document Type: Article

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