ABSTRACT
Molecular electronics is interpreted as part of the rapidly growing scientific activities concerned with electron and energy transfer phenomena on a molecular scale. Even though the field of molecular electronics will eventually present an engineering-type challenge motivated by explicit applications, at present industrial laboratories mostly follow those activities in the role of sceptical observers. Dynamical properties are part of the physical characterization. Examples are the transport measurements of antidot arrays; specific ensemble properties result as dynamical conductivity in dot arrays or the optical properties of spectral hole burning material. The nonlinear optical response can be tailored by selecting appropriate molecular subunits. The only dynamical features that have made their way into applications related to molecular information processing are connected with spectral hole burning. Novel dynamical features might include effects of quantum stochastics and quantum coherence, the latter including incomplete decomposability.
