Molecular Switching and Moore

电子技术正面临着重大的制造挑战。国际半导体界已经确定分子电子学和分子开关是潜在的未来技术，可以帮助缓解这些日益增长的集成挑战。本项目将探索和开发一些新型的分子开关来满足这一未来的需求。这些开关将通过混合价模型络合物中分子内电子转移的光谱电化学和计算研究进行评估和筛选，然后将最有希望的设计迁移到金属-分子-金属结中进行进一步评估。

Electronics technology is coming up against significant fabrication challenges. The international semiconductor community has identified molecular electronics and molecular switches as potential future technologies that can help to alleviate these growing integration challenges. This project will explore and develop a number of novel molecular switches to meet this coming need. The switches will be assessed and screened through spectroelectrochemical and computational studies of intramolecular electron transfer in mixed-valence model complexes, before migrating the most promising designs into metal-molecule-metal junctions for further assessment.