Issue 26, 2012

Molecular optoelectronics: the interaction of molecular conduction junctions with light

Abstract

The interaction of light with molecular conduction junctions is attracting growing interest as a challenging experimental and theoretical problem on one hand, and because of its potential application as a characterization and control tool on the other. It stands at the interface between two important fields, molecular electronics and molecular plasmonics and has attracted attention as a challenging scientific problem with potentially important technological consequences. Here we review the present state of the art of this field, focusing on several key phenomena and applications: using light as a switching device, using light to control junction transport in the adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes, light generation in biased junctions and Raman scattering from such systems. This field has seen remarkable progress in the past decade, and the growing availability of scanning tip configurations that can combine optical and electrical probes suggests that further progress towards the goal of realizing molecular optoelectronics on the nanoscale is imminent.

Graphical abstract: Molecular optoelectronics: the interaction of molecular conduction junctions with light

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
29 Feb 2012
Accepted
17 Apr 2012
First published
18 Apr 2012

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 9421-9438

Molecular optoelectronics: the interaction of molecular conduction junctions with light

M. Galperin and A. Nitzan, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 9421 DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40636E

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