Fig. 2: Static molecular junction.
From: Molecular electronic devices based on atomic manufacturing methods
a Top and cross-sectional views of gold nanodot devices fabricated via electromigration and self-breaking techniques. b Current–voltage (I–V) characteristics of controlled electromigration in air. a, b reproduced from ref.325, copyright 2024, with permission from American Chemical Society. c Schematic of the EGaIn-exTTF-Au molecular junction. d Rectification mechanism of the EGaIn-exTTF-Au junction. c, d reproduced from ref.326, copyright 2024, with permission from Wiley. e Layered schematic of the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) OCGT device, reproduced from ref.327, copyright 2021, with permission from Wiley. f Graphene-based single-molecule transistor (SMT) architecture with a porphyrin molecule as the central component, reproduced from ref.26, copyright 2024, with permission from Springer Nature. g DNA positioning principle: electron-beam or photolithographic patterning on HMDS-passivated substrates generates hydrophilic hydroxyl groups for selective DNA assembly. h SEM image of the hybrid SiO₂-AuNPs-DNA nanostructure assembly. g, h Reproduced from ref.120, copyright 2023, with permission from Springer Nature
