OBSERVATION OF UNIMOLECULAR ELECTRICAL RECTIFICATION IN HEXADECYLQUINOLINIUM TRICYANOQUINODIMETHANIDE

Authors
METZGER RM CHEN B VUILLAUME D LAKSHMIKANTHAM MV HOPFNER U KAWAI T BALDWIN JW WU X TACHIBANA H SAKURAI H CAVA MP
Citation
Rm. Metzger et al., OBSERVATION OF UNIMOLECULAR ELECTRICAL RECTIFICATION IN HEXADECYLQUINOLINIUM TRICYANOQUINODIMETHANIDE, Thin solid films, 329, 1998, pp. 326-330
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Material Science","Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Thin solid films → ACNP
ISSN journal
00406090
Volume
329
Year of publication
1998
Pages
326 - 330
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-6090(1998)329:<326:OOUERI>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The macroscopic and the nanoscopic DC electrical current through Langm uir-Blodgett (LB) multilayers, and even through a monolayer of gamma-( n-hexadecyl)quinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide, C(16)H(33)Q-3CNQ (1) is asymmetric with voltage, and has a large component due to a transi tion from the ground-state zwitterion to a probably neutral excited-st ate conformer: the molecule is indubitably a rectifier of electrical c urrent. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.