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NANOTECHNOLOGY: Enhanced: Toward Nanocomputers
Greg Y. Tseng and James C. Ellenbogen
Nanoelectronics is the next frontier after microelectronics, and research in this field is advancing at a breathtaking rate. In their Perspective, Tseng and Ellenbogen highlight four recent papers, including the reports by Huang et al. and Bachtold et al., which show that logic circuits can be made with molecular-scale components. Many challenges remain to be overcome until a nanocomputer can be realized, but these studies move this ambitious goal one important step closer.
G. Y. Tseng is in the Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, and the Nanosystems Group, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA 22102, USA. E-mail: gytseng{at}stanford.edu J. C. Ellenbogen is at the Nanosystems Group, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA 22102, USA. E-mail: ellenbgn{at}mitre.org
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REPORTS
Adrian Bachtold, Peter Hadley, Takeshi Nakanishi, and Cees Dekker (9 November 2001) Science294 (5545), 1317.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1065824] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supplemental Data »
REPORTS
Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Yi Cui, Lincoln J. Lauhon, Kyoung-Ha Kim, and Charles M. Lieber (9 November 2001) Science294 (5545), 1313.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1066192] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
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