Molecular Electronics and Chemical/Biological Sensors1
Jie Han*, a and Meyya Meyyappanb
aELORET, NASA Ames Research Center,
Mountain View, CA 94035 USA
bNASA Ames Research Center
This is an abstract
for a presentation given at the
Ninth
Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
There will be a link from here to the full article when it is
available on the web.
This talk will present mainly experimental effort of NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology in research and development of molecular electronics and chemical/biological sensors. Organic molecular wires and carbon nanotubes have been synthesized using combinatorial approaches, and characterized with atomic force microscopes and Raman spectroscopy. They are fabricated into two and three terminal electronic devices, behaved like diodes and transistors. Furthermore, logic gates are made using p- and n-doped nanotube transistors, showing well-defined inverter behavior. Nanotube transistors and organic molecular wires also show ultra sensitivity to chemical and biological environment. Their application to nanoscale chemical/biological sensors is also discussed in this presentation.
1 In collaboration with Prof. Chongwu Zhou at University of Southern California
*Corresponding Address:
Jie Han
ELORET, NASA Ames Research Center
229-1, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035 USA
Phone: 650-604-4799
Fax: 650-604-5244
Email: [email protected]
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~han/home.html
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