A group of researchers from POLYMAT, the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), the University of Barcelona, the Bioengineering Institute of Barcelona (IBEC) and the University of Aveiro, led by Aurelio Mateo Alonso -Ikerbasque Research Professor at POLYMAT-, have developed a new family of molecular or nanowire cables that open new horizons in molecular electronics. The research has been published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.
The growing demand for ever smaller electronic devices leads to the need to create circuits whose components are also as small as possible, which requires new approaches in their design.
Molecular electronics has aroused great interest since the manufacture of electronic circuits using molecules would lead to the reduction of its size. Nanowires are conductive wires on a molecular scale that carry the current inside these circuits. That is why the efficiency of these cables is of vital importance.
Precisely one of the main novelties of the new family of nanowires developed by the group led by Aurelio Mateo lies in its high efficiency, which constitutes a step forward in the miniaturization of electronic circuits.
Bibliographic reference
Marco Carini, Marta P. Ruiz, Imanol Usabiaga, José A. Fernández, Emilio Cocinero, Manuel Melle-Franco, Ismael Diez-Perez, and Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “High Conductance Values in π-Folded Molecular Junctions” Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15195 (2017) DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS15195.
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