Chemical Aspects of Molecule-based Electronics

Mark A.教授拉特纳得到了 化学系与研究生教育和科研 NSF的研究生培训计划部门强调 分子电子学的化学方面。 一队 六名西北大学化学系的教师， 这一领域和相关领域的教学和研究专长将 也可以提供研究生培训和指导 作为该领域的研究方向。 确保 该计划导致培训的净扩展， 化学系，积极的招聘计划 将制定重点放在少数民族和女学生的方案。 一旦 被招募后，受训人员将参加一个严格的计划， 旨在提供：1）与中心主题相关的课程 分子电子学; 2）接触和相互作用 来自国外的顶尖学术和工业研究人员 西北大学; 3）研究培训内 西北大学教师的实验室;和4） 具有团队合作、跨学科解决问题的经验 通过合作研究互动。 %%% 分子电子学是利用分子材料 用于电子或光子应用。 这个范围 场的范围从定义明确、理解透彻的现象 例如单晶非线性光学响应 有机发色团， 更困难的领域涉及光学计算和光学 分子水平的记忆存储系统。这 跨学科领域不仅包括化学， 还有物理学、工程学和材料科学。 与 出现了第一个商业化的分子电子 技术，需要美国培养的博士学位。水平科学家 已经变得不言自明了 通过这种方式提供的资金 研究生研究培训奖将有助于提供 科学家在这方面的国家需要。

Professor Mark A. Ratner is supported by a grant from the Chemistry Division and the Graduate Education and Research Division at NSF for a Graduate Traineeship Program emphasizing the chemical aspects of molecule-based electronics. A team of six Northwestern University chemistry faculty members with teaching and research expertise in this and related areas will be assembled to provide graduate training and mentoring as well as research program direction in this area. To ensure the program leads to a net expansion of training within the chemistry department, an aggressive recruitment plan emphasizing minority and female students will be devised. Once recruited, the trainees will take part in a rigorous program designed to provide: 1) courses pertinent to the central themes of molecule-based electronics; 2) exposure to and interaction with leading academic and industrial researchers from outside Northwestern University; 3) research training within the laboratories of Northwestern University faculty; and 4) experience in team-oriented, interdisciplinary problem solving via collaborative research interactions. %%% Molecule-based electronics is the use of molecular materials for electronic or photonic applications. The scope of this field ranges from well-defined and well-understood phenomena such as nonlinear optical response of a single crystal of an organic chromophore to the more tantalizing and conceptually more difficult areas involving optical computing and optical memory storage systems at the molecular level. This interdisciplinary field encompasses not only chemistry, but also physics, engineering and materials science. With the emergence of the first commercial molecular electronic technologies, the need for U.S. trained Ph.D. level scientists has become self-evident. Funding provided through this Graduate Research Traineeship award will help to provide scientists in this area of national need.