Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Side-group chemical gating via reversible optical and electric control in a single molecule transistor

  • Linan Meng,
  • Na Xin,
  • Chen Hu,
  • Jinying Wang,
  • Bo Gui,
  • Junjie Shi,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Cheng Shen,
  • Guangyu Zhang,
  • Hong Guo,
  • Sheng Meng,
  • Xuefeng Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09120-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It remains a challenge to fully control molecular electronics. Here, Meng et al. show a reversible two-mode single-molecule switch, where the conductance through the molecular backbone is controlled by an in situ chemical gating via bias-dependent trans–cis isomerisation on an azobenzene sidegroup.