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 …

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 …

Conductance of a single conjugated polymer as a continuous function of its length

L Lafferentz, F Ample, H Yu, S Hecht, C Joachim, L Grill - Science, 2009 - science.org
The development of electronic devices at the single-molecule scale requires detailed
understanding of charge transport through individual molecular wires. To characterize the …

Tailoring molecular layers at metal surfaces

L Bartels - Nature chemistry, 2010 - nature.com
The design of networks of organic molecules at metal surfaces, highly attractive for a variety
of applications ranging from molecular electronics to gas sensors to protective coatings, has …

Charge transport through molecular switches

SJ van der Molen, P Liljeroth - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the fascinating research on charge transport through switchable molecules. In the
past decade, detailed investigations have been performed on a great variety of molecular …

Molecular electronics with single molecules in solid-state devices

K Moth-Poulsen, T Bjørnholm - Nature nanotechnology, 2009 - nature.com
The ultimate aim of molecular electronics is to understand and master single-molecule
devices. Based on the latest results on electron transport in single molecules in solid-state …

Single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Y Qiu, C Kuang, X Liu, L Tang - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SM-SERS) has the potential to
detect single molecules in a non-invasive, label-free manner with high-throughput. SM …

In situ formation of highly conducting covalent Au–C contacts for single-molecule junctions

ZL Cheng, R Skouta, H Vazquez, JR Widawsky… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Charge transport across metal–molecule interfaces has an important role in organic
electronics. Typically, chemical link groups such as thiols or amines are used to bind organic …

Influence of conformation on conductance of biphenyl-dithiol single-molecule contacts

A Mishchenko, D Vonlanthen, V Meded, M Burkle… - Nano …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The conductance of a family of biphenyl-dithiol derivatives with conformationally fixed
torsion angle was measured using the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)-break-junction …

Single-molecule junctions based on nitrile-terminated biphenyls: a promising new anchoring group

A Mishchenko, LA Zotti, D Vonlanthen… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the electronic transport
through single-molecule junctions based on nitrile-terminated biphenyl derivatives. Using a …