Over the past two decades, various techniques for fabricating nano-gapped electrodes have
emerged, promoting rapid development in the field of single-molecule electronics, on both …

Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

The field of single-molecule electronics harnesses expertise from engineering, physics and
chemistry to realize circuit elements at the limit of miniaturization; it is a subfield of …

The tunnelling of electrons through molecules (and through any nanoscale insulating and
dielectric material) shows exponential attenuation with increasing length, a length …

Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-
dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated …

Thiolate-protected gold surfaces and interfaces, relevant for self-assembled monolayers of
organic molecules on gold, for passivated gold nanoclusters and for molecule–gold …

We present novel methods implemented within the non-equilibrium Green function code
(NEGF) transiesta based on density functional theory (DFT). Our flexible, next-generation …

The idea of using individual molecules as active electronic components provided the
impetus to develop a variety of experimental platforms to probe their electronic transport …

The use of single molecules in electronics represents the next limit of miniaturisation of
electronic devices, which would enable us to continue the trend of aggressive downscaling …

The emerging application of attosecond techniques to molecular systems allows the role of
electronic coherence in the control of chemical reactions to be investigated. Prompt …