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Molecular Scale Electronics. Critical Nanolithography Issues of Synthesis and Addressing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

S. Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
E. T. Mickelson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
A. M. Rawlett
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
C. L. Asplund
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
A. M. Cassell
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
M. Kozaki
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
T. P. Burgin
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
l. Jones II
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
J. M. Tour
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, MS 222, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA, tour@rice.edu
M. L. Myrick
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
P. G. Van Patten
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
J. Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, Email: mark.reed@yale.edu
C.-W. Zhou
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, Email: mark.reed@yale.edu
C. J. Muller
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, Email: mark.reed@yale.edu
M. R. Deshpande
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, Email: mark.reed@yale.edu
M. A. Reed
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, Email: mark.reed@yale.edu
L. A. Bumm
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Email: stm@psu.edu (Weiss)dla3@psu.edu (Allara)
M. T. Cygan
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Email: stm@psu.edu (Weiss)dla3@psu.edu (Allara)
T. D. Dunbar
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Email: stm@psu.edu (Weiss)dla3@psu.edu (Allara)
P. S. Weiss
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Email: stm@psu.edu (Weiss)dla3@psu.edu (Allara)
D. L. Allara
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Email: stm@psu.edu (Weiss)dla3@psu.edu (Allara)
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Abstract

As we rapidly approach the point at which solid-state electronic devices cease to be made any smaller, molecular scale electronics offers, perhaps, the best chance for a continued miniaturization of computational devices. We must, however, completely re-think our approach to lithography. Presented in this paper are our solution-phase and solid-support based syntheses of molecular wires of precise length and dimensions, and our methods of addressing these wires via molecular “alligator clips” to gold and platinum electrodes of macroscale dimensions.

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