Progress in molecular scale devices and circuits

Presents a review of the basic concepts of self-assembled molecular-scale electronic devices, their conduction mechanisms, and recent experimental progress. New fabrication techniques to study the transport mechanism of organic molecular wires are employed to provide metallic contacts to the self-assembled monolayer of a small number of conjugated molecular wires. A clear and outstanding challenge is the synthesis and measurement of 3-terminal structures, and the determination of gain mechanisms in such structures. Initial results on candidates are reported.