Electrostatic Gate Control in Molecular Transistors

Abstract

Molecular transistors, in which single molecules serve as active channel components in a three-terminal device geometry, constitute the building blocks of molecular scale electronic circuits. To demonstrate such devices, a gate electrode has been incorporated in several test beds of molecular electronics. The frontier orbitals’ alignments of a molecular transistor can be delicately tuned by modifying the molecular orbital energy with the gate electrode. In this review, we described electrostatic gate control of solid-state molecular transistors. In particular, we focus on recent experimental accomplishments in fabrication and characterization of molecular transistors.

Chapter 7 was originally published as Song, H. Topics in Current Chemistry (2018) 376: 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-018-0215-2.