ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the basic core definitions and premises. Molecular (nano) electronics focuses on fundamental, applied, and experimental research and technology developments in devising and implementing novel high-performance enhanced-functionality atomic or molecular devices, modules and platforms, and high-yield bottom-up fabrication. In microelectronic devices, individual molecules and atoms do not depict the overall device physics and do not define the device performance, functionality, and capabilities. Molecular electronics and processing platforms, as a cutting-edge revolutionary endeavor, are researched. The emergence of molecular electronics and processing platforms is pervasive, persuasive, and irreversible. In molecular devices, individual molecules and atoms explicitly define the overall device physics depicting the device performance, functionality, capabilities, and topologies. Molecular electronics ultimately depends on basic theory, pervasive understanding, and implementation of novel concepts, as well as development of bottom-up technologies.
