Encoding information using molecular vibronics. Academic Article

abstract

• Signals carrying information are encoded in molecular vibrational waves (vibronics) rather than in electric currents as widely done in microelectronics. We demonstrate theoretically that signals can be transmitted along a long polypeptide molecule; the signal is modulated in a terahertz carrier corresponding to a frequency of an intrinsic vibrational mode of the backbone of the polypeptide, via amplitude and frequency modulations. The modulated carrier is coupled as a vibrational wave to the polypeptide at one end of the molecule and propagates for more than 168 angstroms towards the other end. Digital signal processing techniques are used to recover the modulated signals.

authors

• Seminario, Jorge

published proceedings

• J Nanosci Nanotechnol

author list (cited authors)

• Yan, L., Ma, Y., & Seminario, J. M.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• Yan, Liuming||Ma, Yuefei||Seminario, Jorge M

publication date

• March 2006

publisher

• American Scientific Publishers  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology  Journal

keywords

• Computer Simulation
• Computers, Molecular
• Feasibility Studies
• Information Storage And Retrieval
• Microwaves
• Models, Chemical
• Nanotechnology
• Peptides
• Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
• Vibration

PubMed Central ID

• 16573120

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1166/jnn.2006.087

start page

• 675

end page

• 684

volume

• 6

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2006.087