Biomicroelectronics − an Outline of Its Subject, Aims and Methods

Abstract

This subdiscipline of bioelectronics deals with electronic properties of biological microstructures (molecules, aggregates of them, and cellular substructures as well as their possible role in living systems. To realize this goal, two basically different approaches are feasible. The first one is to apply purely physical concepts and methods to reveal these properties and electronic phenomena, and the other one is to look for such units in biological systems that may function as elementary units of electronic devices (e.g. paths of electronic conduction, switchable elements, resonators, etc.).