[UCI-Calit2] SURF-IT Seminar: Building Circuits With Single-Molecule Components

[Stuart Ross]

Calit2 is pleased to co-host the second in a series by faculty mentors for “SURF-IT,” the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology.

Wednesday, July 11
9:00 a.m.  "Electronic Circuits With Single-Molecule Components"
Philip Collins, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
  SURF-IT Fellow:  Phillip Haralson, Electrical Engineering & Physics

This project is part of a collaboration bridging electronics, physics, and biochemistry. Four research groups led by Prof. Collins have jointly developed techniques for building operational electronic circuits at the single-molecule scale. Carbon nanotubes are used as the interconnecting wires, and a variety of molecules including proteins and peptides are investigated. The resulting circuits are of commercial interest as chemical and biological sensors and provide a new method of collecting signals from the physical world.  Our present research is focused on improving the number of circuits that can be reliably fabricated and tested. Because each experiment involves the creation of only one chemical bond, our team must develop new ways of controlling the fabrication and characterizing reactions with the necessary resolution.

Note:  This project and the seminar are also part of the activities for the Integrated Micro-Nano Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (IM-SURE), an NSF-funded program administered on campus by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.








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