Archive for April 27th, 2005

2005-04-27

Powers of Ten, Moore’s Law, and Single Molecule Wires

Filed under: Chemistry,   Computers,   Nano — Geoff @ 11:08 am

I previously discussed plastic electronics — and how molecules and polymers can be electrically conductive.

A key idea to remember is the unbelievable scale of molecules. If I used a conducting polymer molecule ~10 nanometers in length (as an example) and formed a conducting film approx. 1cm x 1cm in size, then to get one electron [...]

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