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Molecular Scale Electronics. Critical Nanolithography Issues of Synthesis and Addressing

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As we rapidly approach the point at which solid-state electronic devices cease to be made any smaller, molecular scale electronics offers, perhaps, the best chance for a continued miniaturization of computational devices. We must, however, completely re-think our approach to lithography. Presented in this paper are our solution-phase and solid-support based syntheses of molecular wires of precise length and dimensions, and our methods of addressing these wires via molecular “alligator clips” to gold and platinum electrodes of macroscale dimensions.

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Financial Support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) via the Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-99-1-0406, and the Army Research Office (ARO) DAAD19-99-1-0085 is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, MS 222, Houston, TX, 77005, USA

    S. Huang, E. T. Mickelson, A. M. Rawlett, C. L. Asplund, A. M. Cassell, M. Kozaki, T. P. Burgin, L. Jones II & J. M. Tour

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    M. L. Myrick & P. G. Van Patten

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    J. Chen, C.-W. Zhou, C. J. Muller, M. R. Deshpande & M. A. Reed

  4. Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    L. A. Bumm, M. T. Cygan, T. D. Dunbar, P. S. Weiss & D. L. Allara

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Huang, S., Mickelson, E.T., Rawlett, A.M. et al. Molecular Scale Electronics. Critical Nanolithography Issues of Synthesis and Addressing. MRS Online Proceedings Library 584, 45–56 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-584-45

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