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Blending organic building blocks

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Multifunctional organic materials can be used to make optically tunable organic transistors that can operate on microsecond timescales, thus opening new perspectives in the design of organic integrated circuits.

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Figure 1: Molecular photochromic building blocks, energetics and the working principle of an optically switchable organic transistor.

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  1. C. Santato and J. Sayago are in the Department of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Quebec H3T1J4, Canada,

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  2. F. Rosei is at the Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes, Quebec J3X 1S2, Canada,

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Sayago, J., Rosei, F. & Santato, C. Blending organic building blocks. Nature Photon 6, 639–640 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.235

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