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Review of the Organic Rectifier Project: Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Donor- Sigma-Acceptor Molecules

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Lower-Dimensional Systems and Molecular Electronics

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 248))

Abstract

The Organic Rectifier Project (ORP) endeavours to verify the tantalizing proposal by Ari Aviram, Mark A. Ratner and coworkers [1–3] that a single organic molecule of the type D-σ-A could be a rectifier of electrical current. The molecule would do so because the D end is a good organic one-electron donor, σ is a covalent saturated (“ sigma”) bridge, and A is a good organic one-electron acceptor. The progress of the ORP [4–24] has been chronicled often [5,8,10,16,19–21,23] but the rectification by a single organic molecule, or by an organized Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) [25–31] monolayer of such molecules, has not yet been demonstrated. The driving force for the ORP, which may be one of the key experiments in molecular electronics, is that the working thickness promised by such a D-σ-A device is of the order of a few molecular lengths, i.e. about 5 nm: such a small size is predicted to be unattainable even by the rosiest forecasts for silicon or gallium arsenide technology.

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Metzger, R.M., Panetta, C.A. (1990). Review of the Organic Rectifier Project: Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Donor- Sigma-Acceptor Molecules. In: Metzger, R.M., Day, P., Papavassiliou, G.C. (eds) Lower-Dimensional Systems and Molecular Electronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 248. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2088-1_72

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