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To: Steve Lee who wrote (98860)	10/24/2002 3:40:27 PM
From: Casaubon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

what kind of a readout (output) could such a device enable. Seems quite limited on first thought. Zeev, any insight on this?

To: Steve Lee who wrote (98860)	10/24/2002 4:21:58 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Yes, I am familiar with that, it is an extension of the pioneering work IBM did on the Atomic Force Microscope. They have moved from static systems (they were using Argon atoms at the time to lay out definite patterns) to dynamic systems where a molecule can change between two states. It will take some time to become an actual logic products, but the "road-map" is quite rational. Others are doing something similar by controlling the orientation of radicals attached to a long chain polymer. I think that approach has more merit than a cascade of carbon monoxide molecules, but for demonstration purposes the asymmetry of CO is quite useful. I presume that reading the state would be through a "microcapacitance" type of measurement. Zeev Zeev