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Three Unimolecular Rectifiers and a Proposed Unimolecular Amplifier

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Organic Conductors, Superconductors and Magnets: From Synthesis to Molecular Electronics

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 139))

Abstract

“Molecular electronics”, molecular-scale electronics, or unimolecular electronics (UE), studies electronic processes measured or controlled on a nanoscopic or molecular scale [1]. (In the 1980’s, when results on single molecules were still scarce, molecular electronics, also known as molecule-based electronics, was defined more boadly to also include electronic processes by crystals and conducting polymers [1]). UE focuses narrowly on electronic processes that involve one molecule, or very few molecules, on the scale of 0.5 to 3 nm. UE “reaches out and touches” individual molecules, and exploits their structure to control the flow of electrical signals.

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Metzger, R.M. (2004). Three Unimolecular Rectifiers and a Proposed Unimolecular Amplifier. In: Ouahab, L., Yagubskii, E. (eds) Organic Conductors, Superconductors and Magnets: From Synthesis to Molecular Electronics. NATO Science Series, vol 139. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1027-6_16

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