Smart eutectic gallium–indium: from properties to applications

Z Zhao, S Soni, T Lee, CA Nijhuis… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with a melting point close to or
below room temperature, has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its …

Nanoscale molecular rectifiers

R Gupta, JA Fereiro, A Bayat, A Pritam… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The use of molecules bridged between two electrodes as a stable rectifier is an important
goal in molecular electronics. Until recently, however, and despite extensive experimental …

Dynamic molecular switches with hysteretic negative differential conductance emulating synaptic behaviour

Y Wang, Q Zhang, HPAG Astier, C Nickle, S Soni… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
To realize molecular-scale electrical operations beyond the von Neumann bottleneck, new
types of multifunctional switches are needed that mimic self-learning or neuromorphic …

Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Electric-field-driven dual-functional molecular switches in tunnel junctions

Y Han, C Nickle, Z Zhang, HPAG Astier, TJ Duffin… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
To avoid crosstalk and suppress leakage currents in resistive random access memories
(RRAMs), a resistive switch and a current rectifier (diode) are usually combined in series in a …

Charge transport through molecular ensembles: Recent progress in molecular electronics

Y Liu, X Qiu, S Soni, RC Chiechi - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This review focuses on molecular ensemble junctions in which the individual molecules of a
monolayer each span two electrodes. This geometry favors quantum mechanical tunneling …

Molecular electronics: creating and bridging molecular junctions and promoting its commercialization

T Li, VK Bandari, OG Schmidt - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular electronics is driven by the dream of expanding Moore's law to the molecular level
for next‐generation electronics through incorporating individual or ensemble molecules into …

Two-dimensional inorganic molecular crystals

W Han, P Huang, L Li, F Wang, P Luo, K Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Two-dimensional molecular crystals, consisting of zero-dimensional molecules, are very
appealing due to their novel physical properties. However, they are mostly limited to organic …

Electric field-induced assembly in single-stacking terphenyl junctions

Y Tang, Y Zhou, D Zhou, Y Chen, Z Xiao… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Molecular assembly is crucial in functional molecular materials and devices. Among the
molecular interactions that can form assemblies, stacking among π-conjugated molecular …

Scalable fabrication of metallic nanogaps at the sub‐10 nm level

S Luo, BH Hoff, SA Maier, JC de Mello - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metallic nanogaps with metal–metal separations of less than 10 nm have many applications
in nanoscale photonics and electronics. However, their fabrication remains a considerable …