>"Due to their sub-nanometer size, molecular components can efficiently exploit effects such as coherent resonant transport, Coulomb blockade, and strong inter-molecular capacitive coupling, phenomena essential for implementing nontrivial functions, including memories, memristors, switches, and oscillators.
Among such behaviors,
negative differential conductance (NDC)
, where
increasing voltage results in decreasing current
, is of particular importance. NDC enables high-speed switching, low-power logic, and oscillatory circuits, and has become a fundamental mechanism for emerging nanoelectronics, molecular computing and quantum sensing [4, 5, 6, 7]. While NDC has been well established in conventional semiconductor components (e.g., Gunn diodes, Esaki diodes) [8, 9], quantum dot arrays [10, 11, 12], two-dimensional heterostructures [13, 14, 15], molecular layers [16, 17, 18] and even single-molecule break junctions [19, 20], scalable integration of NDC into reproducible molecular circuits has been hampered for decades by the so-called wiring problem."
Looks like some very interesting and potentially promising research!
negative differential conductance (NDC)
, where
increasing voltage results in decreasing current
, is of particular importance. NDC enables high-speed switching, low-power logic, and oscillatory circuits, and has become a fundamental mechanism for emerging nanoelectronics, molecular computing and quantum sensing [4, 5, 6, 7]. While NDC has been well established in conventional semiconductor components (e.g., Gunn diodes, Esaki diodes) [8, 9], quantum dot arrays [10, 11, 12], two-dimensional heterostructures [13, 14, 15], molecular layers [16, 17, 18] and even single-molecule break junctions [19, 20], scalable integration of NDC into reproducible molecular circuits has been hampered for decades by the so-called wiring problem."
Looks like some very interesting and potentially promising research!