Concepts in the design and engineering of single-molecule electronic devices

N Xin, J Guan, C Zhou, X Chen, C Gu, Y Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Single-molecule quantum-transport phenomena in break junctions

P Gehring, JM Thijssen, HSJ van der Zant - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Single-molecule junctions—devices in which a single molecule is electrically connected by
two electrodes—enable the study of a broad range of quantum-transport phenomena even …

Large-area, ensemble molecular electronics: motivation and challenges

A Vilan, D Aswal, D Cahen - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
We review charge transport across molecular monolayers, which is central to molecular
electronics (MolEl), using large-area junctions (NmJ). We strive to provide a wide conceptual …

Anisotropic thermal magnetoresistance for an active control of radiative heat transfer

RM Abraham Ekeroth, P Ben-Abdallah… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The discovery that the near-field radiative heat transfer enables to overcome the limit set by
Planck's law holds the promise to have an impact in different nanotechnologies that make …

Large magnetoresistance in single-radical molecular junctions

R Hayakawa, MA Karimi, J Wolf, T Huhn… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic radicals are promising building blocks for molecular spintronics. Little is known
about the role of unpaired electrons for electron transport at the single-molecule level. Here …

Single-molecule nano-optoelectronics: insights from physics

P Li, L Zhou, C Zhao, H Ju, Q Gao, W Si… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Single-molecule optoelectronic devices promise a potential solution for miniaturization and
functionalization of silicon-based microelectronic circuits in the future. For decades of its fast …

Proposal for all-electrical skyrmion detection in van der Waals tunnel junctions

D Li, S Haldar, S Heinze - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
A major challenge for magnetic skyrmions in atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) materials
is reliable skyrmion detection. Here, based on rigorous first-principles calculations, we show …

Evolution of Single-Molecule Electronic Interfaces

L Chen, Z Yang, Q Lin, X Li, J Bai, W Hong - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule electronics can fabricate single-molecule devices via the construction of
molecule–electrode interfaces and also provide a unique tool to investigate single-molecule …

Symmetry aspects of spin filtering in molecular junctions: Hybridization and quantum interference effects

D Li, R Banerjee, S Mondal, I Maliyov, M Romanova… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Control and manipulation of electric current and, especially, its degree of spin polarization
(spin filtering) across single molecules are currently of great interest in the field of molecular …

Robust giant magnetoresistance in 2D van der Waals molecular magnetic tunnel junctions

D Li, T Frauenheim, J He - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
The spin transport across a zero-dimensional (0D) single-molecule sandwiched by two-
dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnetic electrodes may open vast …