Abstract:
Recent electrical measurements of two molecular nanowire model systems will be discussed: these are carbon nanotubes and DNA. While it is known that nanotubes can be good conductors, a surprisingly large (equilibrium) conductivity has been found for a single (rope) of DNA attached to macroscopic electric contacts. Nanotubes are one dimensional quantum conductors exhibiting a large phase coherence length. However, transport is not fully ballistic because compelling evidence for intrinsic backscattering as well as  interaction effects have been found.

Prof. Christian Schönenberger:
1979  Engineer degree in Electrotechnics
1980-1981 Engineer at ETHZ (Molecular Spectroscopy)
1986 Master in Physics ETHZ
1990 PhD in Physics (diff. aspects of scanning-probe microscopy, at IBM Reseach)
1990-1992 Posdoc at Philips Research
1992-1995  Staff member of Philips Research
1995 Professor in Physics at the University of Basel