Molecular-scale electronics: from concept to function

D Xiang, X Wang, C Jia, T Lee, X Guo - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

[HTML][HTML] Towards single molecule switches

JL Zhang, JQ Zhong, JD Lin, WP Hu, K Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of using single molecules as key building blocks for logic gates, diodes and
transistors to perform basic functions of digital electronic devices at the molecular scale has …

Recent progress in the development of molecular-scale electronics based on photoswitchable molecules

X Huang, T Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular electronic devices with tunable conductance states show great potential in
building memories and logic components for next-generation circuits. In recent years …

Nanoelectronics from the bottom up

W Lu, CM Lieber - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Electronics obtained through the bottom-up approach of molecular-level control of material
composition and structure may lead to devices and fabrication strategies not possible with …

Molecular electronics. Synthesis and testing of components

JM Tour - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2000 - ACS Publications
Molecular electronics involves the use of single or small packets of molecules as the
fundamental units for computing. While initial targets are the substitution of solid-state wires …

Conductance switching in single molecules through conformational changes

ZJ Donhauser, BA Mantooth, KF Kelly, LA Bumm… - Science, 2001 - science.org
We tracked over time the conductance switching of single and bundled phenylene
ethynylene oligomers isolated in matrices of alkanethiolate monolayers. The persistence …

Comparison of electronic transport measurements on organic molecules

A Salomon, D Cahen, S Lindsay, J Tomfohr… - Advanced …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We compile, compare, and discuss experimental results on low‐bias, room‐temperature
currents through organic molecules obtained in different electrode–molecule–electrode test …

The genesis of molecular electronics

RL Carroll, CB Gorman - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular electronics is, relatively speaking, a young field. Even so, there have been many
significant advances and a much greater understanding of the types of materials that will be …

Unimolecular electrical rectifiers

RM Metzger - Chemical reviews, 2003 - ACS Publications
“Molecular electronics” can be defined narrowly (sensu stricto) as the study of electrical and
electronic processes measured or controlled on a molecular scale. 1 When results on single …

Room-temperature negative differential resistance in nanoscale molecular junctions

J Chen, W Wang, MA Reed, AM Rawlett… - Applied physics …, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular devices are reported utilizing active self-assembled monolayers containing the
nitroamine 2-amino-4, 4-diethynylphenyl-5-nitro-1-benzenethiolate or the nitro compound 4 …