Unimolecular Rectifiers and Proposed Unimolecular Amplifier
The rectification by three molecules that form Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers between gold electrodes is reviewed, along with a proposal for the means to obtain gain in a unimolecular amplifier, the molecular analog of a bipolar junction transistor.
unimolecular rectifier unimolecular amplifier monolayer langmuir-blodgett films self-assembly unimolecular electronics break junctions catenanes schottky barriers asymmetric rectification scanning tunneling microscopy moore's law field-effect transistors pn junctions pnp junction transistors aviram-ratner proposal single-electron transistor carbon nanotubes cold-gold evaporation rectification ratio