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Benefiting from the development of molecular electronics and molecular plasmonics, the interplay of light and electronic transport in molecular junctions has attracted growing interest among researchers in both fields, leading to a new research direction of “single-molecule optoelectronics”. Here, we review the latest developments of photo-modulated charge transport, electroluminescence and Raman spectroscopy from single-molecule junctions, and suggest future directions for single-molecule optoelectronics.
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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0204901, 2017YFA0204902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21673195, 61571242, 21503179, 21727806, 21722305), and the Young Thousand Talent Project of China.
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Chen, L., Feng, A., Wang, M. et al. Towards single-molecule optoelectronic devices. Sci. China Chem. 61, 1368–1384 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-018-9356-2
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