Molecular-scale electronics: from concept to function

D **ang, 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 …

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

N **n, 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 junctions beyond electronic transport

SV Aradhya, L Venkataraman - Nature nanotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
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 …

Chemical principles of single-molecule electronics

TA Su, M Neupane, ML Steigerwald… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Observation of quantum interference in molecular charge transport

CM Guédon, H Valkenier, T Markussen… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
As the dimensions of a conductor approach the nanoscale, quantum effects begin to
dominate, and it becomes possible to control the conductance through direct manipulation of …

Gate controlling of quantum interference and direct observation of anti-resonances in single molecule charge transport

Y Li, M Buerkle, G Li, A Rostamian, H Wang, Z Wang… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum interference can profoundly affect charge transport in single molecules, but
experiments can usually measure only the conductance at the Fermi energy. Because, in …

Nanoscale organic thermoelectric materials: measurement, theoretical models, and optimization strategies

YJ Zeng, D Wu, XH Cao, WX Zhou… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The demands for waste heat energy recovery from industrial production, solar energy, and
electronic devices have resulted in increasing attention being focused on thermoelectric …

Quantum interference effects in charge transport through single-molecule junctions: detection, manipulation, and application

J Liu, X Huang, F Wang, W Hong - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Quantum interference effects (QIEs), which offer unique opportunities for the
fine-tuning of charge transport through molecular building blocks by constructive or …

Correlations between molecular structure and single-junction conductance: a case study with oligo (phenylene-ethynylene)-type wires

V Kaliginedi, P Moreno-García… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The charge transport characteristics of 11 tailor-made dithiol-terminated oligo (phenylene-
ethynylene)(OPE)-type molecules attached to two gold electrodes were studied at a …