Molecular Manipulation Technologies Using an Electric Field and Application to Organic Nanoelectronics

Abstract

To realize a single or several molecule device, the following are necessary: (1) an electrical wiring method that is not destructive to the molecular aggregates and does not affect the electronic state of the molecules, (2) noncontact and controllable molecular manipulation technology, (3) oriented growth techniques especially to prepare a nanodevice employing an anisotropic molecular system. In this paper, recently developed electric-field assisted growth and its application to molecular device fabrication are presented.