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David K. Ferry
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Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
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John R. Barker
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Carlo Jacoboni
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University of Modena, Modena, Italy
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The technological means now exists for approaching the fundamentallimiting scales of solid state electronics in which a single carrier can, in principle, represent a single bit in an information flow. In this light, the prospect of chemically, or biologically, engineered molccular-scale structures which might support information processing functions has enticed workers for many years. The one common factor in all suggested molecular switches, ranging from the experimentally feasible proton-tunneling structure, to natural systems such as the micro-tubule, is that each proposed structure deals with individual information carrying entities. Whereas this future molecular electronics faces enormous technical challenges, the same Iimit is already appearing in existing semiconducting quantum wires and small tunneling structures, both superconducting and normal meta! devices, in which the motion of a single eh arge through the tunneling barrier can produce a sufficient voltage change to cut-off further tunneling current. We may compare the above situation with today's Si microelectronics, where each bit is encoded as a very !arge number, not necessarily fixed, of electrons within acharge pulse. The associated reservoirs and sinks of charge carriers may be profitably tapped and manipulated to proviele macro-currents which can be readily amplified or curtailed. On the other band, modern semiconductor ULSI has progressed by adopting a linear scaling principle to the down-sizing of individual semiconductor devices.
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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Contributed Poster Papers
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- J. J. L. Rascol, K. P. Martin, R. E. Carnahan, R. J. Higgins, L. Cury, J. C. Portal et al.
Pages 531-534
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- Per Hyldgaard, A. P. Jauho
Pages 535-537
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- Daniel Loss, Paul Goldbart, A. V. Balatsky
Pages 539-542
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- A. Weisshaar, J. Lary, S. M. Goodnick, V. K. Tripathi
Pages 543-546
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- Leonard F. Register, Umberto Ravaioli, Karl Hess
Pages 547-550
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- T. J. B. M. Janssen, N. K. Patel, J. Singleton, M. Pepper, H. Ahmed, D. G. Hasko et al.
Pages 551-554
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- M. Suhrke, S. Wilke, R. Keiper
Pages 559-561
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- V. Bubanja, A. Maassen van den Brink, D. V. Averin, G. Schön
Pages 567-570
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- R. T. M. Smokers, P. J. M. van Bentum, H. van Kempen
Pages 571-574
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- J. A. Støvneng, P. Lipavsky
Pages 575-577
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Back Matter
Pages 579-590
Editors and Affiliations
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Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
David K. Ferry
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
John R. Barker
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University of Modena, Modena, Italy
Carlo Jacoboni