The Molecular and Quantum Electronics axis prepares the near futur electronic and information processing techniques. The research is aimed to diversity the functions and materials reportes on chips and to prepare alternatives to the conventional information technology based on CMOS silicon transistor.

Related and highly internationally active, the fiels of molecular electronics and quantum electronics are at the very root of micro-and nanoelectronics and generators of future technological breakthroughs.
The Molecular and Quantum Electronics axes, fruitfully interacting with other axes of the C’Nano IdF, develops research on three related issues : molecular nanoelectronics, nanophotonics and quantum electronic transport.
Molecular electronics concerns the realization and study of systems, components and circuits, consisting of one or a few nano-objects : molecules, nanotubes, nanowire, or nanoparticles.
Molecular nanophotnics is a possible answer to the problem of interfacing nanoobjects with the macroscopic world. It is studied as such, but also as a possible route towards quantum control of nanoobjects.
The study of quantum electronic transport complets this axis. It aims to understand how quantum coherence affects the electronic transport and to use this coherence for quantum information processing.