Aviram-Ratner organic rectifier

The demonstration of molecular electronics has been really difficult, as can be seen for the Aviram-Ratner rectifier. The only molecular device that has been demonstrated experimentally is the molecular photodiode, by Fujihira et al. [5-7]. In the course of time, the term molecular electronics has acquired a broader definition, such as that of being the field in which organic molecular materials perform an active function in the processing and its transmission and storage [8]. 

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