Session A5 - Molecular Electronics: Challenges for Computing and Sensing.
INVITED session, Monday morning, March 22
524AB, Palais des Congres
If molecular electronics is to become technologically significant we must find ways to combine the " bottom-up" self-assembly of simple nanoscale structures with the arbitrarily complex "top-down" design and manufacturing of the entire circuit that will allow a designer to create exactly what she wants. Reconfigurable computer architectures allow the downloading of logically complex (high entropy) structures into highly symmetric (low entropy) nanoscale assemblies. These architectures additionally solve the problem of defect-tolerance - how to efficiently map a perfect logical circuit onto an imperfect self-assembled structure.