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Figure 1.8. Schematic of the gold-sulphur-aryl-sulphur-gold system.
[From Reed et al., Science, 278, 252 (1997). Reprinted with permission
from AAAS.]
Figure 1.9. Left: Schematic showing how the switch is formed at the ch01
junction between two crossing nanowires that are separated by a single
monolayer of molecules. Right: Picture of fan-out wires that connect the
nanoscale circuits to the microscale. [Reprinted with permission from
P. J. Kuekes, G. S. Snider and R. S. Williams, Scientific American, November
2005, 72. Copyright c
2005 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights
reserved.]