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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 96)
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How fast and powerful can computers become? Will it be possible someday to create artificial brains that have intellectual capabilities comparable to those of human beings? The answers to these questions depend to a very great extent on a single factor: how small and dense we can make computer circuits. Very recently, scientists have achieved revolutionary advances that may very well radically change the future of computing.
There are significant advantages to using biological molecules in a new computational paradigm, since nature has solved similar problems to those encountered in harnessing organic molecules to perform data manipulation. Biomolecules could be used as photonic devices in holography, as spatial light modulators, in neural network optical computing, as nonlinear optical devices, and as optical memories. Such computers may use a billion times less energy than electronic computers, while storing data in a trillionth of the space, while also being highly parallel. Research projects implemented by national and international groups have produced a large amount of data from multidisciplinary work, ranging from physics and engineering to chemistry and biology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Electronics: Bio-sensors and Bio-computers
Editors: L. Barsanti, V. Evangelista, P. Gualtieri, V. Passarelli, S. Vestri
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0141-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1211-2Published: 31 March 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1212-9Published: 31 March 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0141-0Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 545
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Physical Chemistry, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering