Defect-tolerant molecular electronics

Author

Kuekes, Philip J. ; Williams, R.Stanley

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. ISCAS 2002. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Phoenix-Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7448-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1010919

Filename

1010919