molecular electronics

Molecular Electronics

Molecular electronics describes the field in which molecules are utilized as the active (switching, sensing, etc.) or passive (current rectifiers, surface passivants) elements in electronic devices. This review focuses on experimental aspects of molecular electronics that researchers have elucidated over the past decade or so and that relate to the fabrication of molecular electronic devices in...

Towards graphyne molecular electronics.

α-Graphyne, a carbon-expanded version of graphene ('carbo-graphene') that was recently evidenced as an alternative zero-gap semiconductor, remains a theoretical material. Nevertheless, using specific synthesis methods, molecular units of α-graphyne ('carbo-benzene' macrocycles) can be inserted between two anilinyl (4-NH2-C6H4)-anchoring groups that allow these fragments to form molecular juncti...

Organic and Molecular Electronics

Over recent years, a wide variety of challenges aiming for electrical pumping of organic laser diodes have been addressed. However, organic laser diodes have difficulty gaining widespread application due to their high lasing thresholds under electrical pumping. A variety of organic semiconductors have been developed to reduce the lasing threshold, which include not only small molecular material...

Molecular and Nano-electronics

Molecular-Scale Electronics

A review of nonequilibrium electronic transport in molecules and molecular-scale synthetic systems is given. Although the basic concepts and mechanisms for electronic conduction in polymers have been discussed for some time, recently developed experimental techniques provide systems for their validation. New fabrication techniques that create metallic contacts to a small number of conjugated or...

Molecular electronics: observation of molecular rectification.

Ira Herskowitz Eric F. Johnson Stephen M. Kosslyn Michael LaBarbera Charles S. Levings Ill Alexander Levitzki Harvey F. Lodish Richard Losick Diane Mathis Anthony R. Means Shigetada Nakanishi Roger A. Nicoll William H. OrmeJohnson Ill Stuart L. Pimm Yeshayau Pocker Dennis A. Powers Ralph S. Quatrano V. Ramanathan Douglas C. Rees T. M. Rice Erkki Ruoslahti David C. Rubie Gottfried Schatz Jozef S...