@article{Ardesi2024, 
author = {Yuri Ardesi and Giuliana Beretta and Fabrizio Mo and Chiara Elfi Spano and Gianluca Piccinini and Mariagrazia Graziano},
title = {Unveiling field-coupled nanocomputing: Leaning molecules to shape readable bits},
year = {2024},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {17},
number = {9},
pages = {8447-8454},
keywords = {nanoelectronics, molecular electronics, field-coupled nanocomputing, electronics, beyond-complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-024-6811-2},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-024-6811-2},
abstract = {Molecular field-coupled nanocomputing (molFCN) encodes information in the molecule charge distribution and elaborates it through electrostatic coupling. Despite the advantageous sub-nanometric size and low-power dissipation, only a few attempts have been made to validate the technology experimentally. One of the obstacles is the difficulty in measuring molecule charges to validate information encoding or integrate molFCN with complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). In this work, we propose a paradigm preserving the advantages of molFCN, which exploits the position of waiving molecules to augment the information encoding. We validate the paradigm, named bend-boosted molFCN, with density functional theory using 6-(ferrocenyl)hexanethiol cations. We demonstrate that the encoded information can be electrically read by constituting a molecular junction. The paradigm is compatible with the charge-based molFCN, thus acting as a readout system. The obtained results favor the experimental assessment of the molFCN principle through scanning probe microscopy techniques and the design of molFCN-CMOS heterogeneous circuits.}
}