Resumen

RAMIREZ, A.; ZEHE, A.  y  DURAN, R.. Ac-electrokinetics based tools in nanoengineering and molecular electronics. J. appl. res. technol [online]. 2005, vol.3, n.2, pp.89-103. ISSN 2448-6736.

Silicon-based microelectronics has been following the integration prognosis of MOORE's Law during the past decades and possibly will do so for another decade or two. Physical, technological and also financial limits in the foreseeable future will slow down the continued expansion of this branch of microelectronics and instead will force a new technological approach based on molecular-scale electronics (MOLETRONICS). New tools are needed to allow molecular device manufacturing and nanoscale engineering with high precision and productivity. One group of methods with the potential for use in such a manufacturing process is based on a.c. electrokinetics effects, which are described and discussed in this paper.

Palabras llave : Embedded Electrokinetics; Dielectrophoresis; Electrorotation; Dielectric Polarization; Nanoengineering.