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What Happens When Molecules Meet Nanostructures: The Convergence of Chemistry and Electronics at the Nanoscale

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A number of solid-state devices yield useful chemical information based on interactions between molecules and molecule-sized features on the device. These include nanopores, nanowire field-effect transistor sensors, nanoscale redox sensors, and tunnel junctions. Here, we consider the electrochemical requirements needed for the stable operation of such devices. We also review the sources of noise and show how the correlations in noise generated by nanoscale sensors can be used to carry out single-molecule spectroscopy.

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Acknowledgments

This work was carried out with the support of the National Human Genome Research Institute (Grant number R01 HG006323). Many members of the lab contributed to the work described here including Pei Pang, Brian Ashcroft, Weisi Song, and Yanan Zhao. I am grateful to Phil Collins of UC Irvine for providing the data for the plots used in Fig. 6.3. The assistance of the NNIN facility in the Center for Solid State Electronics Research at ASU and the John Cowley Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Stuart Lindsay

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Lindsay, S. (2015). What Happens When Molecules Meet Nanostructures: The Convergence of Chemistry and Electronics at the Nanoscale. In: Korkin, A., Goodnick, S., Nemanich, R. (eds) Nanoscale Materials and Devices for Electronics, Photonics and Solar Energy. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18633-7_6

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