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A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several micrometers down to nan

A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several micrometers down to nanometer-scale dimensions. The device of the present invention can be used to produce crossbar switch arrays, logic devices, memory devices, and communication and signal routing devices. The present invention enables construction of molecular electronic devices on a length scale than can range from micrometers to nanometers via a straightforward and inexpensive chemical assembly procedure. The device is either partially or completely chemically assembled, and the key to the scaling is that the location of the devices on the substrate are defined once the devices have been assembled, not prior to assembly.

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1. A crossed-wire device comprising a pair of crossed wires that form a junction where one wire crosses another at an angle other than zero degrees and at least one connector species connecting said pair of crossed wires in said junction, said junction having a functional dimension in nanometers, wh

1. A crossed-wire device comprising a pair of crossed wires that form a junction where one wire crosses another at an angle other than zero degrees and at least one connector species connecting said pair of crossed wires in said junction, said junction having a functional dimension in nanometers, wherein said at least one connector species and said pair of crossed wires forms an electrochemical cell and wherein said at least one connector species comprises an electrically addressable molecular species.