Molecular electronics: challenges and opportunities, 2014, 1, 1

Abstract

Integrating individual molecules into electrical circuits, often termed as “Molecular Electronics”, is currently a focus research area because it can not only meet the increasing technical demands of the miniaturization of traditional Si-based electronic devices, but also provide an ideal window of exploring the intrinsic properties of materials at the molecular level. Indeed, over the past decade we witnessed the significant progresses achieved in both experiments and theory for the purpose of constructing, measuring, and understanding the electronic and photonic responses of these conceptually simple molecular junctions in which molecular systems play an important role as pivotal elements ^[1,2]. These advances have attracted researchers from a variety of backgrounds and begun to move beyond simple descriptions of charge transport and branch out in different directions, reflecting the interdisciplinary realm.

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