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- Editors:
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David K. Ferry
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Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
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John R. Barker
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Carlo Jacoboni
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University of Modena, Modena, Italy
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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Lectures
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- Fausto Rossi, Rossella Brunetti, Carlo Jacoboni
Pages 43-61
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- Mark A. Reed, John N. Randall, James H. Luscombe
Pages 79-83
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- Kenji Taniguchi, Chihiro Hamaguchi
Pages 103-132
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- Lino Reggiani, Patrizia Poli, Lucio Rota
Pages 145-153
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- E. Gornik, J. Smoliner, F. Hirler, G. Weimann
Pages 155-164
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- T. J. Thornton, M. L. Roukes, A. Scherer, B. P. Van der Gaag
Pages 165-179
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- A. Szafer, A. Douglas Stone, P. L. McEuen, B. W. Alphenaar
Pages 195-222
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- V. Pevzner, F. Sols, Karl Hess
Pages 223-253
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- Toshiaki Ikoma, Toshiro Hiramoto
Pages 255-275
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- F. Kuchar, J. Lutz, K. Y. Lim, R. Meisels, G. Weimann, W. Schlapp et al.
Pages 277-286
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- Lino Reggiani, Tilmann Kuhn
Pages 287-295
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About this book
The technological means now exists for approaching the fundamentallimiting scales of solid state electronics in which a single carrier can, in principle, represent a single bit in an information flow. In this light, the prospect of chemically, or biologically, engineered molccular-scale structures which might support information processing functions has enticed workers for many years. The one common factor in all suggested molecular switches, ranging from the experimentally feasible proton-tunneling structure, to natural systems such as the micro-tubule, is that each proposed structure deals with individual information carrying entities. Whereas this future molecular electronics faces enormous technical challenges, the same Iimit is already appearing in existing semiconducting quantum wires and small tunneling structures, both superconducting and normal meta! devices, in which the motion of a single eh arge through the tunneling barrier can produce a sufficient voltage change to cut-off further tunneling current. We may compare the above situation with today's Si microelectronics, where each bit is encoded as a very !arge number, not necessarily fixed, of electrons within acharge pulse. The associated reservoirs and sinks of charge carriers may be profitably tapped and manipulated to proviele macro-currents which can be readily amplified or curtailed. On the other band, modern semiconductor ULSI has progressed by adopting a linear scaling principle to the down-sizing of individual semiconductor devices.
Editors and Affiliations
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Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
David K. Ferry
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
John R. Barker
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University of Modena, Modena, Italy
Carlo Jacoboni