Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Along with population growth and economic development, human demand for energy and information will be more than ever, and humans need to rely on semiconductor devices to achieve energy storage, signal and other conversions. So how to design and prepare semiconductor materials with better performance, and industrialise and commercialise the materials has become a new hot topic. Typically, semiconductor materials are nanomaterials, and the current mainstream industrial processing is a top-down process, which raises the cost of production and leads to a waste of resources. Because of this, scientists are starting to believe that molecular engineering—a bottom-up strategy based on molecule self-assembly can save resources, energy, and production costs by constructing semiconductor material structures. This paper examines the bottom-up conceptual approach of molecular engineering and discusses the potential challenges in applying molecular self-assembly technology, which is a crucial method in molecular engineering, to the semiconductor industry. It ultimately concludes that molecular engineering plays a significant role in the semiconductor production process due to its advantages and vast potential for development.
Author: Junda Li
Institution: Guilin University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Biomaterials
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4404223089