An article written by Dr. Hussam Hayek from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Technion and Prof. David Kahan from the Weizmann Institute is the most read article of 2008 on behalf of the American Chemical Society
An article written by Dr. Hussam Haik from the Technion Faculty of Chemical Engineering in collaboration with Prof. David Kahan from the Weizmann Institute is the most read article of 2008 on behalf of the American Chemical Society. The article, entitled "Creating electrical contacts for organic molecules: towards electrical devices based on organic molecules", was published in the prestigious journal Accounts of Chemical Research, in January 2008.
The construction of tiny electrical devices involves to a considerable extent their connection to the macrometric world, in order to allow interaction between the device and the user. Today, there is a wide variety of techniques for producing electrical contacts for microelectronic devices (ie, devices with the size of a millionth of a meter) in a reliable way. Using the same techniques, on the other hand, causes a lot of destruction during the creation of electrical contacts for nanoelectronic devices (that is, devices the size of a billionth of a meter) that will enable, for example, supercomputers the size of a sugar cube.
The article by Dr. Hayek and Professor Kahn deals with the question of how electrical contacts can be made to nanometric systems in a gentle way without destroying them and/or the electrical effects
