Monitoring the Transition From Tunneling Leakage Current to Molecular Tunneling (IMAGE)

Xiamen University

Monitoring the Transition From Tunneling Leakage Current to Molecular Tunneling

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The tunneling leakage is a major quantum obstacle which hinders further miniaturization of electronic devices. To explore the miniaturization limits of molecular electronics, the oligo(aryleneethynylene) (OAE) molecules were employed to investigate the transition between through-space tunneling and molecular tunneling. For the shortest OAE molecule, the intrinsic single-molecule charge transport can be outstripped from tunneling leakage at 0.66 nm, suggesting the potential to push the miniaturization limit of molecular electronic devices to the angstrom scale.

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