Computer researchers said they believe the advance heralds the rapid acceleration of a new field known as moletronics, or molecular electronics.
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Most earlier efforts in the emerging field of molecular electronics have focused on finding ways to continue the miniaturization of transistors.
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In December 1961, the Air Force accepted the first analog device created within the molecular electronics program a radio receiver.
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The experimental results involved research by Schon and other scientists in the hot fields of superconductivity, molecular electronics and molecular crystals.
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In fact, it's more likely that chipmakers will gradually integrate new structures such as molecular electronics into current silicon technology, Gargini said.
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An important issue in molecular electronics is the determination of the resistance of a single molecule ( both theoretical and experimental ).
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Speculating about whether a new technology like molecular electronics might displace an existing one like silicon is very risky, the researchers said.
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"We really have a period of momentous development in molecular-scale electronics, " said James C . Ellenbogen, a pioneer in molecular electronics.
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The superconductor work is not among the seven papers that include the suspect graphs, which report advances in organic transistors and molecular electronics.
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"It's going to convince more people of something we've been contending for several years _ that molecular electronics is real, " he said.