Electric-field-induced connectivity switching in single-molecule junctions

C Tang, J Zheng, Y Ye, J Liu, L Chen, Z Yan, Z Chen… - IScience, 2020 - cell.com
The manipulation of molecule-electrode interaction is essential for the fabrication of
molecular devices and determines the connectivity from electrodes to molecular …

Electric field-induced switching among multiple conductance pathways in single-molecule junctions

T Gao, Z Pan, Z Cai, J Zheng, C Tang, S Yuan… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we report the switching among multiple conductance pathways achieved by sliding
the scanning tunneling microscope tip among different binding sites under different electric …

Electric field-induced assembly in single-stacking terphenyl junctions

Y Tang, Y Zhou, D Zhou, Y Chen, Z Xiao… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Molecular assembly is crucial in functional molecular materials and devices. Among the
molecular interactions that can form assemblies, stacking among π-conjugated molecular …

Selective Fabrication of Single‐Molecule Junctions by Interface Engineering

BF Zeng, G Wang, QZ Qian, ZX Chen, XG Zhang, ZX Lu… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in addressing electrically driven single‐molecule behaviors has opened up
a path toward the controllable fabrication of molecular devices. Herein, the selective …

Anisotropic Conductivity at the Single‐Molecule Scale

S Afsari, P Yasini, H Peng, JP Perdew… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In most junctions built by wiring a single molecule between two electrodes, the electrons
flow along only one axis: between the two anchoring groups. However, molecules can be …

Three-terminal single-molecule junctions formed by mechanically controllable break junctions with side gating

D Xiang, H Jeong, D Kim, T Lee, Y Cheng, Q Wang… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Molecules are promising candidates for electronic device components because of their
small size, chemical tunability, and ability to self-assemble. A major challenge when building …

Regulating the orientation of a single coordinate bond by the synergistic action of mechanical forces and electric field

W Zhang, Z Zhao, M Tan, A Adijiang, S Zhong, X Xu… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The molecular binding orientation with respect to the electrode plays a pivotal role in
determining the performance of molecular devices. However, accomplishing in situ …

Designing a robust single-molecule switch

CD Frisbie - Science, 2016 - science.org
In molecular electronics, researchers combine atomic control of molecular structure with
high-precision nanofabrication techniques to connect individual molecules to tiny …

Break junction under electrochemical gating: testbed for single-molecule electronics

C Huang, AV Rudnev, W Hong… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular electronics aims to construct functional molecular devices at the single-molecule
scale. One of the major challenges is to construct a single-molecule junction and to further …

Molecularly inherent voltage-controlled conductance switching

AS Blum, JG Kushmerick, DP Long, CH Patterson… - Nature Materials, 2005 - nature.com
Molecular electronics has been proposed as a pathway for high-density nanoelectronic
devices. This pathway involves the development of a molecular memory device based on …