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US 5,350,930 AGranted
Cluster compound microelectronic component
OwnerGunter Schmid, Gunter Schon +1inventors
InventorsGunter Schmid, Gunter Schon, Ulrich Simon
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OwnerGunter Schmid, Gunter Schon +1inventors
InventorsGunter Schmid, Gunter Schon, Ulrich Simon
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The invention relates to a microelectronic component with a component body determining the electronic properties of the component and functioning on the basis of a quantum wire or quantum point system. The the component body is formed of at least one, but in most cases a plurality of cluster molecules which adjoin one another, and the cluster molecules are formed of a metallic cluster nucleus and nonmetallic (insulating) ligand shell externally shielding and stabilizing the cluster nucleus. The cluster nucleus of the cluster molecules is formed of atoms of a transition metal, preferably silver (Ag), gold (Au), cobalt (Co), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), rhodium (Rh), Ruthenium (Ru).
Microelectronic component having a component body comprised of at least one molecular cluster of a cluster compound, said molecular cluster having a metallic cluster nucleus and an insulating ligand shell externally shielding and stabilizing the cluster nucleus in a manner enabling excitation of free electrons in the cluster nucleus by action of an external excitation parameter on the at least one molecular cluster and means for applying said external excitation parameter to the component body.
Method of controlling a microelectronic component comprised of a plurality adjoining molecular clusters of a cluster compound, each said molecular cluster having a metallic cluster nucleus and an insulating ligand shell externally shielding and stabilizing the cluster nucleus in a manner enabling excitation of free electrons in the cluster nucleus by action of an external excitation parameter on the cluster molecules, and means for applying said external excitation parameter to the component body, comprising the steps of applying said external excitation parameter to the component body by at least two connecting electrodes electrically connected with the material of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.