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"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

 

Carl Sagan

In touch with molecules
Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:40

The performance of modern electronics increases steadily on a fast pace thanks to the ongoing miniaturization of the utilized components. However, se-vere problems arise due to quantum-mechanical phenomena when conven-tional structures are simply made smaller and reach the nanometer scale. Therefore current research focuses on the so-called bottom-up approach: the engineering of functional structures with the smallest possible building blocks - single atoms and molecules.

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