Electric-Field-Driven Localization of Molecular Nanowires in Wafer-Scale Nanogap Electrodes.

ABSTRACT: As integrated circuits continue to scale toward the atomic limit, bottom-up processes, such as epitaxial growth, have come to feature prominently in their fabrication. At the same time, chemistry has developed highly tunable molecular semiconductors that can perform the functions of ultimately scaled circuit components. Hybrid techniques that integrate programmable structures comprising molecular components into devices however are sorely lacking. Here we demonstrate a wafer-scale process that directs the localization of a conductive polymer, M_w = 20 kg mol^-1 polyaniline, from dilute solutions into 50 nm vertical nanogap device architectures using electric-field-driven self-assembly. The resulting metal-polymer-metal junctions were characterized by elect

SUBMITTER: Wong HX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11342357 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature