Researchers have developed a series of techniques to build carbon nanoribbons atom by atom, engineering their electronic properties from the ground up rather than carving them from bulk material.

As electronic devices continue to get smaller and smaller, physical size limitations are beginning to disrupt the trend of doubling transistor density on silicon-based microchips approximately every ...

As silicon-based electronics approach fundamental limits, researchers are turning to molecules as the smallest possible functional devices. Molecular electronics replaces conventional transistors with ...

Molecular electronic devices using quantum tunneling could achieve integration densities 1,000 times greater than silicon chips by combining atomic-precision assembly with three-dimensional ...

Molecular and organic electronics encompasses the study and application of devices in which organic molecules and polymers not only serve as the functional material but also actively conduct, emit, ...

By placing single-atom-thick adlayers of p-block metals on commonly employed gold electrodes (d-block), a research team at ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new material for single-molecule electronic switches, which can effectively vary current at the nanoscale in response to external stimuli. The material for this ...

The U.S. molecular electronics market is estimated to be worth USD 24.35 billion in 2025 and is projected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.75% to reach USD 159.88 billion by ...

I-V characterization of nanoelectronic and moletronic devices requires low level current measurements in the nanoamp to femtoamp range. To complicate matters, these measurements are quite often made ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance by using molecules with rigid backbones – such as ladder-type molecules, known as ...