Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overview of the first half-century of molecular electronics / Noel S. Hush -- Mechanism of electron conduction in self-assembled alkanethiol monolayer devices / Takhee Lee, Wenyong Wang, and Mark A. Reed -- Electrical characterization of metal-molecule-silicon junctions / W. Wang ... [et al.] -- NEGF-HF method in molecular junction property calculations / Michael Galperin and Abraham Nitzan -- A simple theoretical model to study the voltage dependence of the electronic structure of phenyl ethylene oligomers / Yamil Simón-Manso ... [et al.] -- Molecular landers as probes for molecular device-metal surface interactions / Sukhen C. Ghosh ... [et al.] -- Optical switching in chiropticenes / James P. Parakka ... [et al.] -- Synthesis, electronic properties, and applications of indium oxide nanowires / C. Li ... [et al.] --

Electrical transport study of phenylene-based pi-conjugated molecules in a three-terminal geometry / Jeong-O. Lee ... [et al.] -- Analysis of electron transfer in substituted biphenylmethane / Ivo Cacelli ... [et al.] -- Crossnets : high-performance neuromorphic architectures for CMOL circuits / Konstantin Likharev ... [et al.] -- Conductive probe AFM measurements of conjugated molecular wires / Takao Ishida ... [et al.] -- A protein-based three terminal electronic device / Ross Rinaldi ... [et al.] -- Single-molecule designs for electric switches and rectifiers / Pavel Kornilovitch, Alexander Bratkovsky, and Stanley Williams -- Transiesta : a spice for molecular electronics / Kurt Stokbro ... [et al.] -- Molecular electronics on silicon : an ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy study / Nathan P. Guisinger ... [et al.] --

The appropriateness of density-functional theory for the calculation of molecular electronics properties / Jeffrey R. Reimers ... [et al.] -- Unimolecular rectifiers and proposed unimolecular amplifier / Robert M. Metzger -- Understanding charge transport in molecular electronics / J.G. Kushmerick ... [et al.] -- Molecular assembly and self-assembly : molecular nanoscience for future technologies / M. de Wild ... [et al.] -- A three terminal ring interferometer logic gate / J. Yi and G. Cuniberti -- Scalability simulations for nanomemory systems integrated on the molecular scale / Matthew M. Ziegler ... [et al.].