Molecular Electronics

This up-to-the-minute resource presents molecular electronics as a method for information storage and retrieval that incorporates nanometer-scaled systems, uses microscopic particles, and exploits the laws of quantum mechanics - furnishing application examples that employ properties of distinct molecules joined together to a macroscopic ensemble of virtually identical units.
Discussing the development of system architecture, Molecular Electronics examines the "hardware" and "software" of molecular electronic devices...shows how to form an artificial molecular network...explains the study of single molecules using light fields and single-electron tunneling in mesoscopic structures...describes the cooperative properties of artificial mesoscopic systems...elucidates the properties of bacteriorhodopsin and the implications of gene-manipulated molecules for information processing...demonstrates the application of holographic techniques to create three-dimensional data storage...and much more.
Containing nearly 800 key bibliographic citations and over 300 drawings, photographs, tables, and equations, Molecular Electronics is an indispensable reference for electrical and electronics engineers; physical chemists; experimental, semiconductor, and chemical physicists; computer scientists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.