Infochemistry (eBook)

Information Processing at the Nanoscale

Konrad Szacilowski (Autor)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-31619-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Infochemistry: Information Processing at the Nanoscale, defines a new field of science, and describes the processes, systems and devices at the interface between chemistry and information sciences. The book is devoted to the application of molecular species and nanostructures to advanced information processing. It includes the design and synthesis of suitable materials and nanostructures, their characterization, and finally applications of molecular species and nanostructures for information storage and processing purposes.

Divided into twelve chapters; the first three chapters serve as an introduction to the basic concepts of digital information processing, its development, limitations and finally introduces some alternative concepts for prospective technologies. Chapters four and five discuss traditional low-dimensional metals and semiconductors and carbon nanostructures respectively, while further chapters discuss Photoelectrochemical photocurrent switching and related phenomena and self-organization and self-assembly. Chapters eight, nine and ten discuss information processing at the molecular level, and eleven describes information processing in natural systems. The book concludes with a discussion of the future prospects for the field.

Further topics:

• Traditional electronic device development is rapidly approaching a limit, so molecular scale information processing is critical in order to meet increasing demand for high computational power


• Characterizes chemical systems not according to their chemical nature, but according to their role as prospective information technology elements


• Covers the application of molecular species and nanostructures as molecular scale logic gates, switches, memories, and complex computing devices

This book will be of particular interest to researchers in nanoelectronics, organic electronics, optoelectronics, chemistry and materials science.

Autor

Konrad Szacilowski is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at AGH University of Science and Technology, and Associate Professor in Chemistry at Jagiellonian University, Poland. His research interests are focused mainly on information processing at the molecular level, surface engineering of nanocrystalline materials, photoelectrochemistry of wide band gap semiconductors, and molecular nanoelectronics.

Inhalt

Preface

1 Introduction to the theory of information

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Definition and properties of information

1.3 Principles of Boolean algebra

1.4 Digital information processing and logic gates

1.4.1 Simple logic gates

1.4.2 Concatenated logic circuits

1.4.3 Sequential logic circuits

1.5 Ternary and higher logic calculi

1.6 Irreversible vs reversible logic

2 Physical and technological limits of classical electronics

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Fundamental limitations of information processing

2.3 Technological limits of miniaturization

3 Changing the paradigm: towards computation with molecules

4 Low-dimensional metals and semiconductors

4.1 Dimensionality and morphology of nanostructures

4.2 Electrical and optical properties of nanoobjects and nanostructures

4.2.1 Metals

4.2.2 Semiconductors

4.3 Molecular scale engineering of semiconducting surfaces

4.3.1 Semiconductor-molecule interactions

4.2.3 Electronic coupling between semiconducting surfaces and adsorbates

5 Carbon nanostructures

5.1 Nanoforms of carbon

5.2 Electronic structure and properties of graphene

5.3 Carbon nanotubes

5.4 Conjugated and polyaromatic systems

5.5 Nanocarbon and organic semiconductor devices

6 Photoelectrochemical photocurrent switching and related phenomena

6.1 Photocurrent generation and switching in neat semiconductors

6.2 Photocurrent switching in MIM organic devices

6.3 Photocurrent switching in semiconducting composites

6.4 Photocurrent switching in surface-modified semiconductors

7 Self-organization and self-assembly in supramolecular systems

7.1 Supramolecular assembly: Towards molecular devices

7.2 Self-assembled semiconducting structures

7.3 Self-assembly at solid interfaces

7.4 Controlling self-assembly of nanoparticles

7.5 Self-assembly and molecular electronics

8 Molecular-scale electronics

8.1 Electron transfer and molecular junctions

8.2 Nanoscale electromagnetism

8.3 Molecular rectifiers

9 Molecular logic gates

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Chemically driven logic gates

9.2.1 OR gates

9.2.2 AND gates

9.2.3 XOR gates

9.2.4 INH gates

9.2.5 IMP gates

9.2.6 Inverted logic gates (NOR, NAND, XNOR)

9.2.7 Behind classical Boolean scheme - ternary logic and Feynman gate

9.3 All-optical logic gates

9.4 Electrochemical logic systems

10 Molecular computing systems

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Reconfigurable and superimposed molecular logic devices

10.3 Concatenated chemical logic systems

10.4 Molecular-scale digital communication

10.4.1 Multiplexers and demultiplexers

10.4.2 Encoders and decoders

10.4.3 Molecular scale signal amplification

10.5 Molecular arithmetics: Adders and subtractors

10.5.1 Molecular-scale half-adders

10.5.2 Molecular-scale half subtractors

10.5.3 Half adders/half subtractors

10.5.4 Full adders and full subtractors: towards molecular processors

10.6 Molecular scale security systems

10.7 Noise and error propagation in concatenated systems

11 Bioinspired and biomimetic logic devices

11.1 Information processing in natural systems

11.2 Protein-based digital systems

11.2.1 Enzymes as information processing molecules

11.2.2 Enzymes as information carriers

11.3 Binary logic devices based on nucleic acidd

11.4 Logic devices based on whole organisms

12 Concluding remarks and future prospects

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Between • Book • Chemistry • Computational • Due • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Electronic materials • Elektronische Materialien • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • Information • Interface • Key • Limits • Materials Science • Materialwissenschaften • miniaturization • molecular • Nanochemie • nanochemistry • Nanomaterial • Nanostrukturiertes Material • Nanotechnologie • nanotechnology • Need • Potential • Power • Processing • Science • Sciences • Storage • Switches • traditional transistors • use
• ISBN-10: 1-118-31619-3 / 1118316193
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-31619-1 / 9781118316191