Papers based on the Engineering Foundation Conference on Ordered Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics: Introduction

This special issue presents papers based on talks given at the Engineering Foundation Conference on Ordered Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics held in Keauhou-Kona, Hawaii, USA in June 1994. The meeting was chaired by Professor Mark Reed of Yale University, with co-chairs Doctors Avi Aviram and Phaedon Avouris of IBM T J Watson Research Center, and was supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The papers in this issue have been edited with the assistance of Diane Maggs of the Pennsylvania State University, to whom we are most grateful. As seen in the diversity of these papers, most of which are updated from the original talks given, the topics of the meeting and this issue include: novel devices and fabrications methods, molecular conductors, quantum dots, single electron structures, self-assembly, and atomic manipulation. P S Weiss Department of Chemistry The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA16802-6300 USA M A Reed Department of Electrical Engineering Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8284 USA