Molecular Nanoelectronics

Organic molecules have also been shown to have the necessary properties to be used in electronics and a single atom transistor was even demonstrated recently. Devices made of molecular components would be much smaller than those made by existing silicon technologies and ultimately offer the smallest electronics theoretically possible without moving into the realm of subatomic particles. The issues of connectivity, and thus mass production, apply to molecular electronics too, but choosing your molecule carefully does offer the potential of using self-assembly (discussed earlier) to create structures, an approach that could offer great economies.