Photo by Beamie Young/NIST

To continue to advance microchip technologies, scientists are studying ways to assemble individual molecules for use as active circuit components. In the AML laboratory shown above, postdoctoral researcher Lucile Teague inserts a sample into a scanning tunneling microscope to study the electrical behavior of organic molecules on a gold surface.

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Date created:6/25/04
Last updated: 6/29/04
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