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Breaking the Landauer limit

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A diode made of a self-assembly monolayer with ferrocenyl termini shows an on/off ratio of ∼105.

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Figure 1: Limitations and opportunities for the on/off current ratio in nanometre-scale devices.

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  1. Nicolas Clement and Akira Fujiwara are at the NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, 243-0198, Japan,

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Clement, N., Fujiwara, A. Breaking the Landauer limit. Nature Nanotech 12, 725–726 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.123

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