ABSTRACT
This article discusses molecular electronics in the context of silicon materials and device engineering. Historic trends in silicon devices — and engineering scaling rules that dictate these trends — give insight into how silicon has become so dominant an electronic material and how difficult it will be to challenge silicon devices with a distinctly different
leapfrog
technology. Molecular electronics presents some intriguing opportunities, and it is likely that these opportunities will be achieved through hybrid silicon/ molecular devices that incorporate beneficial aspects of both material systems
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