[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Nanofabrication techniques in large-area molecular electronic devices

L Herrer, S Martín, P Cea - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The societal impact of the electronics industry is enormous—not to mention how this industry
im**es on the global economy. The foreseen limits of the current technology—technical …

Self-assembly monolayers boosting organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar cell performance

R Qiao, L Zuo - Journal of Materials Research, 2018 - cambridge.org
Organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (OIHPSCs) offer a fantastic opportunity to
harness solar energy in a low cost and efficient way. This ambition for commercialization has …

Fabrication of metallic and non-metallic top electrodes for large-area molecular junctions

E Gorenskaia, KL Turner, S Martín, P Cea, PJ Low - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular junctions have proven invaluable tools through which to explore the electronic
properties of molecules and molecular monolayers. In seeking to develop a viable molecular …

Valence band dependent charge transport in bulk molecular electronic devices incorporating highly conjugated multi-[(porphinato) metal] oligomers

RC Bruce, R Wang, J Rawson… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular electronics offers the potential to control device functions through the fundamental
electronic properties of individual molecules, but realization of such possibilities is typically …

Influence of the contact area on the current density across molecular tunneling junctions measured with EGaIn top-electrodes

P Rothemund, C Morris Bowers, Z Suo… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This paper describes the relationship between the rates of charge transport (by tunneling)
across self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) in a metal/SAM//Ga2O3/EGaIn junction and the …

Bottom‐up molecular tunneling junctions formed by self‐assembly

Y Zhang, Z Zhao, D Fracasso… - Israel Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This Minireview focuses on bottom‐up molecular tunneling junctions–a fundamental
component of molecular electronics–that are formed by self‐assembly. These junctions are …

Direct optical determination of interfacial transport barriers in molecular tunnel junctions

JA Fereiro, RL McCreery… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Molecular electronics seeks to build circuitry using organic components with at least one
dimension in the nanoscale domain. Progress in the field has been inhibited by the difficulty …

Tunneling nanoelectromechanical switches based on compressible molecular thin films

F Niroui, AI Wang, EM Sletten, Y Song, J Kong… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Abrupt switching behavior and near-zero leakage current of nanoelectromechanical (NEM)
switches are advantageous properties through which NEMs can outperform conventional …

Is there a specific correlation between conductance and molecular aromaticity in single-molecule junctions?

GP Zhang, Z **e, Y Song, MZ Wei, GC Hu, CK Wang - Organic Electronics, 2017 - Elsevier
By using the first-principles method, conductance of molecular junctions containing one of
five-atom cyclic unit cyclopentadiene, furan, and thiophene connected to two gold electrodes …