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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Nanodevices, Nanoelectronics, and Nanosensors
Rational You
ITRI-IEK-NEMS
2001/08/01
Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Organic nanostructures
• on left, showing self-assembly of benzene-1,4-dithiol onto Au electrodes; • on right, showing room-temperature I-V measurements suggesting presenc
e of a Coulomb gap
Source: IWGN (1999/09), M. Reed et al. 1997
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Logical design of a defect-tolerant circuit
• (a) shows a “fat tree” architecture in which every member of a logical level of the tree hierarchy can communicate with every member at the next level; in the case of a defective component, this structure enables one to route around and avoid the defect;
• (b) shows how this architecture is implemented using cross bars, which are very regular structures and look like something that can be built chemically.
Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Atomic structure of one of the molecular switches
• The switch can be closed electronically in a solid-state circuit by applying the appropriate voltage across the molecule (Balzani et al. 1998; Credi et al. 1997).
Source: IWGN (1999/09)
• This molecule conducts via resonant tunneling through unoccupied molecular orbitals when it is in its reduced chemical state (switch closed), but it is a tunneling barrier in its oxidized state (switch open).
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
I-V of a large number of molecular switches
• This portion of the I-V curve is highly reproducible until the potential across the molecule exceeds +1 V.
• This voltage irreversibly oxidizes the switches, and after this process, applying a negative voltage results repeatedly in a “small” current, demonstrating that the switch is open.
Source: IWGN (1999/09)
• Initially, the molecular switches are closed, and applying a negative voltage across the molecules results in a “large” current flow that varies exponentially with the magnitude of the applied voltage.
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Synthesis of the active molecular compound and its precursors
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Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Field-effect transistor based on a single 1.6 nm diameter carbon nanotube
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Source: IWGN (1999/09), Martel et al. 1998
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Commercial IBM GMR read head
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Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Nanoelectronics: device and architecture options for high-performance electronics
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Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Resonant tunneling device
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Source: IWGN (1999/09), (Moffat 1999
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Resonant tunneling adder cor
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Source: IWGN (1999/09), (Seabaugh 1998
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Avionics roadmap
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Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Nanobiological anticancer agent PK1
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Source: IWGN (1999/09), Lee 1998
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Models for 3” self-assembled robots
• Three-inch-diameter self-assembled robots mark the spot where an unexploded mine rests under the surface.
• Such robots are cheap, solar-powered, and have no processor to make application or miniaturization difficult.
Source: IWGN (1999/09)
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工業技術研究院產業經濟與資訊服務中心Industrial Technolgy Research InstituteIndustrial Economics & Knowledge Center
Integrated Nanotechnology in Microsystems
• The control of mechanical, electrical, optical, and chemical properties at the nanoscale will enable significant improvements in integrated microsystems.
Source: IWGN (1999/09)