Shrinking transistors has driven computing performance for decades, but the approach is hitting physical ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new theoretical modelling technique that could potentially be used in the development of switches or amplifiers in molecular electronics. Researchers have developed a new ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, in collaboration with two professors from Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Rochester, have developed a new kind of molecule that ...

The miniaturization of electronic devices that use silicon-based technology will soon reach a limit and if devices are to continue getting smaller, scientists must harness the electronic properties of ...

Automatically numbering and weighting electronic states instead of taking averages improves estimates of target molecular orbitals.

Researchers have made a meaningful advance in the simulation of molecular electron transfer -- a fundamental process underpinning countless physical, chemical and biological processes. The study ...

A graphene nanoribbon connects porphyrin molecules – each featuring a metal center (red) – like a molecular string of Christmas lights. The metal atoms are held in place by four nitrogen atoms (blue) ...

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 ...