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 …

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 …

High performance mechano-optoelectronic molecular switch

Z Yang, PA Cazade, JL Lin, Z Cao, N Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Highly-efficient molecular photoswitching occurs ex-situ but not to-date inside electronic
devices due to quenching of excited states by background interactions. Here we achieve …

Molecular diodes with rectification ratios exceeding 105 driven by electrostatic interactions

X Chen, M Roemer, L Yuan, W Du, D Thompson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular diodes operating in the tunnelling regime are intrinsically limited to a maximum
rectification ratio R of∼ 103. To enhance this rectification ratio to values comparable to …

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 …

Unimolecular electronics

RM Metzger - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Unimolecular electronics (UME) narrowly defined (sensu stricto), 1 or molecular-scale
electronics, 2 is the study of electrical processes measured or controlled on a molecular …

The importance of electrical impedance spectroscopy and equivalent circuit analysis on nanoscale molecular electronic devices

P Jash, RK Parashar, C Fontanesi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To understand the electrical and charge transport phenomena in either single or large‐scale
molecular junctions, direct current (DC) measurements are mainly utilized. The current …

Controlling the direction of rectification in a molecular diode

L Yuan, N Nerngchamnong, L Cao, H Hamoudi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A challenge in molecular electronics is to control the strength of the molecule–electrode
coupling to optimize device performance. Here we show that non-covalent contacts between …

Defining the value of injection current and effective electrical contact area for EGaIn-based molecular tunneling junctions

FC Simeone, HJ Yoon, MM Thuo… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Analysis of rates of tunneling across self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of n-
alkanethiolates SC n (with n= number of carbon atoms) incorporated in junctions having …

High-yield functional molecular electronic devices

H Jeong, D Kim, D **ang, T Lee - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
An ultimate goal of molecular electronics, which seeks to incorporate molecular components
into electronic circuit units, is to generate functional molecular electronic devices using …