J.
Jortner, M. Ratner
Blackwell Science,1997 [ISBN 0632042842]
The study of molecular electronics has an
ambitious but realistic goal, the use of synthesis, assembly and miniaturisation
on the molecular level to achieve a huge density of devices: molecular
wires, rectifiers, switches, transistors and memories. It foresees applications
not only in standard electronics but also some unique to molecular systems,
for instance sensors based on molecular recognition and molecular interfaces
with biological systems. Molecular Electronics recognises its subject
as a multidisciplinary area of research, with origins in both physics
and biology. The book provides an up-to-date set of authoritative overviews
spanning molecular electronics and assessing its future direction. In
doing this, it makes an important contribution to this new and exciting
discipline.
Contents
Molecular electronics: some directions; Molecular
control of electron and hole transfer processes: electronic structure
theory and applications; External field control of tunnelling in dissipative
two-state systems; Coulomb blockade and digital single-electron devices;
Mesoscopic phenomena studied with mechanically controllable break junctions
at room temperature; Electron hopping transport in electromagnetically
active molecular mixed valent materials; Electrical 'wiring' of glucose
oxidase in electron conducting hydrogels; Resonant tunnelling and molecular
rectification in Langmuir-Blodgett films; Optical properties of semiconductor
nanacrystals (quantum dots); Molecular and supramolecular nanostructures
and nanomachines; Micro and
nanofabrication techniques based on self-assembled monolayers; The design
of starburst dendrimer electron transfer systems; Conjugating polymer
superlattice and porphyrin arrays connected with molecular wires; Subwavelength
molecular exciton probes; Protein based three-dimensional memories and
associative processors; Index
260 illustrations
496 pages