Orbital Mediated Tunneling in a New Unimolecular Rectifier

25 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert Metzger, NCN SLC@Northwestern

In 1997 we showed that hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide is a unimolecular rectifier, by scanning tunneling microscopy and also as a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayer, sandwiched between Al electrodes. We have now seen rectification in a new molecule: this rectification can be followed …