Light-controlled conductance switching of ordered metal-molecule-metal devices

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-80

  Van Der Molen, Sense Jan ^a,b,c,d   Liao, Jianhul ^a   Kudernac, Tibor ^d   Agustsson, Jon S ^a   Bernard, Laetitia ^a   Calame, Michel ^a   Van Wees, Bart J ^b   Feringa, Ben L ^d   Schönenberger, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTANCE SWITCHING; DIARYLETHENE; DIARYLETHENES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; METAL DEVICES; MOLECULAR DEVICES; MOLECULAR SWITCHING; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SWITCHABLE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES;

MOLECULES; OLEFINS;

SWITCHING;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROELECTRODES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 61649090758     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl802487j     Document Type: Article

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