Hemilabile Ligands as Mechanosensitive Electrode Contacts for Molecular Electronics

Cationic Rhodium Complexes with Hemilabile Phosphine Ligands as Polymerization Catalyst for High Molecular Weight Stereoregular Polyphenylacetylene

The Role of Contacts in Molecular Electronics⋆

Molecular electronic devices are the upmost destiny of the miniaturization trend of electronic components. Although not yet reproducible on large scale, molecular devices are since recently subject of intense studies both experimentally and theoretically, which agree in pointing out the extreme sensitivity of such devices on the nature and quality of the contacts. This chapter intends to provid...

Models of electrodes and contacts in molecular electronics.

Bridging the difference in atomic structure between experiments and theoretical calculations and exploring quantum confinement effects in thin electrodes (leads) are both important issues in molecular electronics. To address these issues, we report here, by using Au-benzenedithiol-Au as a model system, systematic investigations of different models for the leads and the lead-molecule contacts: l...

Molecular electronics: connection across nano-sized electrode gaps.

Prefabricated nano-scale structures in which gold electrodes are separated by an insulating core permit self-assembly of a single string "molecular necklace" around its circumference; these devices require no further invasive metal deposition following molecular insertion and exhibit symmetrical current-voltage (I-V) curves that mimic those of self-assembled films on planar substrates.

molecular electronics

electron components have been steadily decreasing in size, while molecular materials have in recent years been found to exhibit many of the properties used in electronics. such developments are giving rise to a new field in which molecular materials are used for electronic applications. molecular electronics offers .