This molecular memory transistor, which can be as small as one
nanometer, stores and disseminates information at high speed —
and it's ready to be produced at existing high-tech fabrication
facilities. Major companies in the memory industry have already
expressed interest in the technology, says Mentovich, who was
awarded first prize for his work at May's European conference in
the session on Novel Materials Approaches for Microelectronics
of the Materials Research Society. As many as 15 years ago,
technology experts realized that the problem with shrinking
electronics would be the physical size of the hardware needed to
make them run. The idea of a sophisticated transistor, which
could do the job of both the transistor and the capacitor, was a
technological dream — until now. In order to tackle this
technology gap, Mentovich was inspired by the work of Israel
Prize winner Prof. Avraham Nitzan of TAU's Department of
Chemistry, who proved that, due to its special structure, a
molecule can store both an electri