Introducing Molecular Electronics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cuniberti, Gianaurelio (Editor), Richter, Klaus (Editor), Fagas, Giorgos (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 680
• Subjects: Physics.; Atoms.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Nanotechnology.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This volume presents a summary of our current understanding of molecular electronics combined with selected state-of-the-art results at a level accessible to the advanced undergraduate or novice postgraduate. This single book comprises the basic knowledge of both theory and experiment underpinning t...

Table of Contents:

• Theory
• Foundations of Molecular Electronics – Charge Transport in Molecular Conduction Junctions
• AC-Driven Transport Through Molecular Wires
• Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanomolecular Systems
• Ab-initio Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Formalism for Calculating Electron Transport in Molecular Devices
• Tight-Binding DFT for Molecular Electronics (gDFTB)
• Current-Induced Effects in Nanoscale Conductors
• Single Electron Tunneling in Small Molecules
• Transport through Intrinsic Quantum Dots in Interacting Carbon Nanotubes
• Introducing Molecular Electronics: A Brief Overview
• Introducing Molecular Electronics: A Brief Overview
• Experiment
• Contacting Individual Molecules Using Mechanically Controllable Break Junctions
• Intrinsic Electronic Conduction Mechanisms in Self-Assembled Monolayers
• Making Contacts to Single Molecules: Are We There Yet?
• Six Unimolecular Rectifiers and What Lies Ahead
• Quantum Transport in Carbon Nanotubes
• Carbon Nanotube Electronics and Optoelectronics
• Charge Transport in DNA-based Devices
• Outlook
• CMOL: Devices, Circuits, and Architectures
• Architectures and Simulations for Nanoprocessor Systems Integrated on the Molecular Scale.