Unimolecular rectifiers and beyond
Robert Melville Metzger · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004
We discuss three unimolecular rectifiers: γ-hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide, 2,6-di[dibutylamino-phenylvinyl]-1-butylpyridinium iodide and dimethylanilino-aza[C60]fullerene, and discuss the progress towards useful one-molecule electronic devices for the ultimate reduction in integrated circuit sizes.