Molecular Electronics

Dr. Paul D. Franzon

919.515.7351, fax. 919.515.2285
www.ece.ncsu.edu/erl/faculty/paulf.html

Brief Description

In collaboration with scientists at Rice University, Naval Research Laboratories, and the University of Sydney, our goal is to support the development of molecular electronics (using molecules as circuit elements). Specific projects we have undertaken include circuit analysis, interconnect structure development, and test structure fabrication.

We thank DARPA and NSF for support of this research.

Selected Publications

· M.R. Stan, P.D. Franzon, S.C. Goldstein, J.C. Lach, M. Zigler, “Molecular Electronics: from devices and interconnect to circuits and architecture,” Proc. IEEE, 91(11), Nov. 2003, pp. 194-1957. paper

· J.R. Reimers, N.M. Kriplani, D.P. Nackashi, C.J. Amsinck, N.H. DiSigna, M.B. Steer, P.D. Franzon, R.L. Rick, G.C. Solomon, “Physically based molecular device model in transient circuit simulator,” in Chemical Physics, 326(1), July 2006, pp. 188-6.

· S.R. Sonkusale, N.H. DiSpigna, P.D. Franzon, “Uniformity analysis of wafer scale sub-25 nm wide nanowire array nanoimprint mold fabricated by PEDAL process,” in Microelectronic Engineering, 84(5-8), May-Aug 2007, pp. 1523-7.

· Di Spigna, N., D. Nackashi, C. Amsinck, S. Sonkusale, and P. Franzon, "Deterministic Nanowire Fanout and Interconnect Without Any Translational Alignment", IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 4, July 2006, pp. 356-361. paper

· C. Amsinck, N. DiSpigna, D. Nackashi, P. Franzon, “Scaling constraints in nanoelectronic random-access memories,” Nanotechnology 16(10), Oct. 2005, pp. 2251 – 2260.

· Amy Szuchmacher Blum, Carissa M. Soto, Charmaine D. Wilson, Tina L. Brower, Steven K. Pollack, Terence L. Schull, Anju Chatterji, Tianwei Lin, John E. Johnson, Christian Amsinck, Paul Franzon, Ranganathan Shashidhar, and Banahalli R. Ratna, “An Engineered Virus as a Scaffold for Three-Dimensional Self-Assembly on the Nanoscale,” Small 1(7), July 2005, pp. 702-706.

· J.M. Tour, L. Cheng, D.P. Nackashi, Y. Yao, A.K. Flatt, S.K. St. Angelo, T.E. Mallouk, P.D. Franzon, “Nanocell Electronic Memories,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 13279-13282, 2003.

· J.M. Tour, W.L. Van Zandt, C.P. Husband, S.M. Husband, L.S. Wilson, P.D. Franzon, D.P. Nackashi, “Nanocell logic gates for Molecular Computing,” IEEE Trans. Nano, 1(2), June 2002, pp. 100-109.

· James M. Tour, William L. Van Zandt, Christopher P. Husband, Summer M. Husband, Eric C. Libby, Derek A. Ruths, Kenneth K. Young and Lauren S. Wilson, Paul D. Franzon and David P. Nackashi, “Nanocell Logic Gates for Molecular Computing,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 1(2), June 2002, pp. 100-109.