Plasmonic phenomena in molecular junctions: principles and applications

M Wang, T Wang, OS Ojambati, TJ Duffin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Sub-nanometre resolution in single-molecule photoluminescence imaging

B Yang, G Chen, A Ghafoor, Y Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ambitions to reach atomic resolution with light have been a major force in shaping nano-
optics, whereby a central challenge is achieving highly localized optical fields. A promising …

Selective triplet exciton formation in a single molecule

K Kimura, K Miwa, H Imada, M Imai-Imada… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The formation of excitons in organic molecules by charge injection is an essential process in
organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs),,,,,–. According to a simple model based on spin …

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 …

Light–matter interaction at atomic scales

R Gutzler, M Garg, CR Ast, K Kuhnke, K Kern - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction drives many systems, such as optoelectronic devices like light-
emitting diodes and solar cells, biological structures like photosystem II and potential future …

Wearable, freezing-tolerant, and self-powered electroluminescence system for long-term cold-resistant displays

Y Zhu, Y Xia, M Wu, W Guo, C Jia, X Wang - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Tremendous efforts in wearable optoelectronics have recently harnessed considerable
advances in intrinsically stretchable electroluminescence (EL) devices. However …

Lightwave-driven scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons

SE Ammerman, V Jelic, Y Wei, VN Breslin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Atomically precise electronics operating at optical frequencies require tools that can
characterize them on their intrinsic length and time scales to guide device design. Lightwave …

Orbital-resolved visualization of single-molecule photocurrent channels

M Imai-Imada, H Imada, K Miwa, Y Tanaka, K Kimura… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Given its central role in utilizing light energy, photoinduced electron transfer (PET) from an
excited molecule has been widely studied,,,,–. However, even though microscopic …

Wavelike electronic energy transfer in donor–acceptor molecular systems through quantum coherence

FF Kong, XJ Tian, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, G Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum-coherent intermolecular energy transfer is believed to play a key role in light
harvesting in photosynthesis and photovoltaics. So far, a direct, real-space demonstration of …