Carroll R Lloyd, Gorman Christopher B
Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8204, USA.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2002 Dec 2;41(23):4378-400. doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20021202)41:23<4378::AID-ANIE4378>3.0.CO;2-A.
Molecular electronics is, relatively speaking, a young field. Even so, there have been many significant advances and a much greater understanding of the types of materials that will be useful in molecular electronics, and their properties. The purpose of this review is to provide a broad basis for understanding the areas where new advances might arise, and to provide introduction to the subdisciplines of molecular electronics. This review is divided into two major parts; an historical examination of the development of conventional electronics, which should provide some understanding of the push towards molecular electronics. The problems associated with continuing to shrink conventional systems are presented, along with references to some of the efforts to solve them. This section is followed by an in-depth look at the most important research into the types of behaviors that molecular systems have been found to display.
相对而言，分子电子学是一个年轻的领域。即便如此，在分子电子学中有用的材料类型及其特性方面已经取得了许多重大进展，并且人们对它们有了更深入的了解。本综述的目的是为理解可能出现新进展的领域提供广泛基础，并介绍分子电子学的子学科。本综述分为两个主要部分；对传统电子学发展的历史考察，这应该能让人对推动分子电子学发展的因素有所了解。文中阐述了传统系统持续缩小所带来的问题，并提及了一些为解决这些问题所做的努力。在这部分之后，将深入探讨已发现分子系统所表现出的最重要行为类型的研究。
