Molecular electronics articles within Nature

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    | Open Access

    We report organic molecules showing both efficient luminescence and near-unity generation yield of excited states with high spin multiplicity, simultaneously supporting a high efficiency of initialization, spin manipulations and light-based readout at room temperature.

    • Sebastian Gorgon
    • , Kuo Lv
    •  & Emrys W. Evans

  • Article |

    Multivalent anions are found to be capable of electron-doping polymer semiconductors to realize conductive films with very low work functions, which enable efficient electron injection into materials with low electron affinity.

    • Cindy G. Tang
    • , Mazlan Nur Syafiqah
    •  & Peter K. H. Ho

  • Letter |

    The thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions is measured using picowatt-resolution calorimetric scanning probes and is found to be nearly independent of the length of the alkanedithiol molecules studied.

    • Longji Cui
    • , Sunghoon Hur
    •  & Edgar Meyhofer

  • Letter |

    A fundamental electronic noise—beyond electronic thermal noise and voltage-activated shot noise—that is generated by temperature differences across nanoscale conductors is demonstrated, with possible implications for thermometry and electronics.

    • Ofir Shein Lumbroso
    • , Lena Simine
    •  & Oren Tal

  • Letter |

    A topologically engineered graphene nanoribbon superlattice is presented that hosts a one-dimensional array of half-filled, in-gap localized electronic states, enabling band engineering.

    • Daniel J. Rizzo
    • , Gregory Veber
    •  & Felix R. Fischer

  • Letter |

    Watching a single molecule move calls for measurements that combine ultrafast temporal resolution with atomic spatial resolution; this is now shown to be possible by combining scanning tunnelling microscopy with lightwave electronics, through a technique that involves removing a single electron from the highest occupied orbital of a single pentacene molecule in a time window shorter than an oscillation cycle of light.

    • Tyler L. Cocker
    • , Dominik Peller
    •  & Rupert Huber

  • Letter |

    Measurements and simulations of several high-mobility conjugated polymers show that their charge transport properties reflect an almost complete lack of disorder in the polymers, despite their amorphous microstructures, resulting from the resilience of the planar polymer backbone conformations to side-chain disorder.

    • Deepak Venkateshvaran
    • , Mark Nikolka
    •  & Henning Sirringhaus

  • Letter |

    An innovative technique based on scanning tunnelling probes with integrated thermocouples is developed and used to measure heat dissipation in the electrodes of atomic and molecular junctions.

    • Woochul Lee
    • , Kyeongtae Kim
    •  & Pramod Reddy

  • Letter |

    Experiments using ultrafast mid-infrared light pulses on nanostructures access a new regime in photoelectron emission, revealing classical sub-cycle electron dynamics in optical near-fields and breaking a diffraction limit in strong-field physics.

    • G. Herink
    • , D. R. Solli
    •  & C. Ropers

  • News & Views |

    A long-standing issue in nanotechnology is how to connect molecular electronic devices. A method for splicing nanoscale wires made from different materials paves the way for a solution to this problem.

    • Dario M. Bassani

  • Feature |

    The multifaceted field of carbon-based electronics offers options for researchers from all areas of the physical sciences.

    • Neil Savage

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