title: Molecular-based electronically switchable tunnel junction devices.
abstract: Solid-state tunnel junction devices were fabricated from Langmuir Blodgett molecular monolayers of a bistable [2]catenane, a bistable [2]pseudorotaxane, and a single-station [2]rotaxane. All devices exhibited a (noncapacitive) hysteretic current-voltage response that switched the device between high- and low-conductivity states, although control devices exhibited no such response. Correlations between the structure and solution-phase dynamics of the molecular and supramolecular systems, the crystallographic domain structure of the monolayer film, and the room-temperature device performance characteristics are reported.
authors.affiliation: California NanoSystems Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Collier
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Jeppesen
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Heath
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Stoddart