Electronic transport measurements were performed on Y-junction carbon nanotubes. These novel junctions contain a large diameter tube branched into smaller ones. Independent measurements using good quality contacts on both individual Y junctions and many in parallel show intrinsic nonlinear transport and reproducible rectifying behavior at room temperature. The results were modeled using classic...

1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Okayama University, Japan 2 Metamaterials Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan 3 Quantum Nanoelectronics Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 4 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 5 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Japan 6 Resear...

The advent of nanoelectronics originates (1) challenges in how to configure or “teach” self-assembled systems and (2) opportunities to integrate memory, digital and analog processing into extremely small systems for sensing and/or embedded computing. This paper describes initial ideas towards nanoelectronic adaptive systems that rely on ultra dense array-like structures to implement fault-toler...

Functional nanoparticles (NPs) are becoming important building blocks in the emerging fi elds of nanomedicine, nanolithography and nanoelectronics, among others. [ 1 ] Several unexpected nanoscale effects have been discovered for these new materials in recent years. [ 2–4 ] Useful synthetic routes to single-molecule polymeric NPs in the 2–15 nm size range with well-defi ned arrangement of funct...

Graphene oxide (GO), an amorphous insulatormaterial, has consists of a hexagonal ring based carbon network having both sp2-hybridized carbon atoms and sp3-hybridizedcarbons bearing hydroxyl andepoxide functional groups on either side of the sheet, whereas the sheet edges are mostly decorated by carboxyl and carbonyl groups [1-6]. These unique properties hold great promise for potential applicat...

Organic solid/solid wetting deposition (OSWD) is an easy, low cost method to prepare epitaxial monolayers of organic semiconductors under ambient conditions. This chapter describes various approaches to induce complexity into highly ordered monolayers with Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM): nanomanipulated self-assembly aiming towards molecular data storage, locally guided selfassembly to ac...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA. Bioengineering Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. *The...