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SUMMARY:Shrinking from macroscopic electronic components to single molecule
	 electronics
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Brent Lawson \n\nPart of the Graduate Student Council
	 Events.\n\nAs the minimum size limit in silicon electronics is approached\
	, alternative solutions to building circuits is required. Any possible alte
	rnative would not only need to be smaller in scale but retain all the funct
	ionality of typical electrical components such as resistors\, transistors\,
	 diodes\, and switches. Those requirements are all fulfilled in single mole
	cule electronics. The endless variety of organic\, organometallic\, and bio
	logical molecules can provide the specific electronic functionality desired
	 at smaller sizes than silicon electronics. \nI will first talk about the p
	rinciples underlying the field of single molecule electronics and how molec
	ules are incorporated into electronic pathways. I will also discuss some of
	 the initial measurements that started the field before talking about recen
	t measurements of the single molecule counterparts to the standard electron
	ic components. All of which have led to interesting and unexpected behavior
	 as quantum mechanics plays a large role on the size scale of single molecu
	les.
LOCATION:SCI \, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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