Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Tuning charge and correlation effects for a single molecule on a graphene device

  • Sebastian Wickenburg,
  • Jiong Lu,
  • Johannes Lischner,
  • Hsin-Zon Tsai,
  • Arash A. Omrani,
  • Alexander Riss,
  • Christoph Karrasch,
  • Aaron Bradley,
  • Han Sae Jung,
  • Ramin Khajeh,
  • Dillon Wong,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Alex Zettl,
  • A.H. Castro Neto,
  • Steven G. Louie,
  • Michael F. Crommie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13553
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The development of single-molecule electronics calls for precise tuning of the electronic properties of individual molecules that go beyond two-terminal control. Here, Wickenburg et al. show gate-tunable switch of charge states of an isolated molecule using a graphene-based field-effect transistor.