Molecular Elements of Computers

Abstract

For many decades molecules and molecular complexes, with their discrete energy levels and the ability to switch the molecular system from one state to another, have been considered ideal elements for computing devices. However, the technological possibilities available in the first half of the last century and foreseeable at that time did not allow even to think about the practical use of the molecular primitives. Moreover, beginning from the 1960s the planar semiconductor technology, with its promise of increasing the capabilities of computing device manifold, was advancing at a rapid pace.

Who knows how many words the God had tried, before He found the one that could create the world.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Aphorisms