Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Collective molecular switching in hybrid superlattices for light-modulated two-dimensional electronics

  • Marco Gobbi,
  • Sara Bonacchi,
  • Jian X. Lian,
  • Alexandre Vercouter,
  • Simone Bertolazzi,
  • Björn Zyska,
  • Melanie Timpel,
  • Roberta Tatti,
  • Yoann Olivier,
  • Stefan Hecht,
  • Marco V. Nardi,
  • David Beljonne,
  • Emanuele Orgiu,
  • Paolo Samorì

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04932-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photochromic molecules offer the unique opportunity to demonstrate multifunctional devices with light-tunable electrical characteristics. Gobbi et al. build light-switchable electronic heterojunctions based on atomically precise, photo-reversible molecular superlattices on graphene and MoS2.