Title :
Defect-tolerant molecular electronics
Author :
Kuekes, Philip J. ; Williams, R.Stanley
Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
The integrated circuit, manufactured by optical lithography, has driven the computer revolution for three decades. If we are to continue to build complex systems of ever-smaller components, we must find a new technology that will allow massively parallel construction of electronic circuits at the atomic scale. Our Hewlett-Packard and University of California research team is currently developing the molecular electronics building blocks and computer aided design algorithms for a defect-tolerant reconfigurable architecture which allows one to electrically download the designed complexity of a computer into a chemically assembled regular but imperfect nanostructure
Keywords :
circuit CAD; fault tolerance; molecular electronics; reconfigurable architectures; atomic-scale electronic circuit; computer aided design algorithm; defect-tolerant reconfigurable architecture; integrated circuit; massively parallel construction; molecular electronics; nanoscale technology; Algorithm design and analysis; Atom optics; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer integrated manufacturing; Integrated circuit manufacture; Integrated optics; Lithography; Molecular electronics; Optical computing; Photonic integrated circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2002. ISCAS 2002. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix-Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7448-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1010919
