Session A5 - Molecular Electronics: Challenges for Computing and Sensing.
INVITED session, Monday morning, March 22
524AB, Palais des Congres
Efforts to fabricate devices based on active molecular components have been driven by both the fundamental interest in using chemistry to build function at the molecular level and the looming technological expectation of the end of Moore’s law. In this talk, we describe the directed assembly of organic and metal-metal bonded supramolecular systems that are interesting materials for potential electronic and memory device applications. Molecules are chosen with head groups that bind to metal or oxide surfaces and tail groups that bind to metal electrodes or that template the growth of the particular molecular system. Optical spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, electrochemistry, and electrical measurements are used to characterize the chemistry and physics of molecular assemblies and the behavior of devices. We demonstrate the layer-by-layer assembly of metal-metal bonded supramolecules and utilize this approach to fabricate molecular devices.