FWF - HESIA - Heterosilaadamantanes

Project: Research project

Project Details

Description

The technological progress of our time is largely based on the ever-increasing miniaturization of electronic circuits. This enables both constantly increasing computing power and ever larger storage capacities. Since this development will reach its physical limits in the foreseeable future, it is necessary to develop new construction principles for electronic circuitry. A particularly promising approach for this is that of molecular electronics, in which circuit diagrams are not lithographically transferred onto a silicon crystal, but rather are assembled of individual molecules. One way to access the molecular components required for this is to use small molecular silicon molecules (polysilanes) instead of large silicon single crystals. The substance class of silaadamantanes can be regarded as small cutouts of the silicon crystal lattice. The present project is concerned with the development of methods to produce and modify these molecules and to investigate their electronic properties in order to establish their fundamental suitability as molecular electronic components. These studies are being conducted as a joint project by working groups at the University of Oldenburg (Prof. Thomas Müller working group), the University of Frankfurt (Prof. Matthias Wagner working group) and TU Graz (Prof. Christoph Marschner working group).
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/10/2430/09/27

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