Molecular Electronics: Light‐Induced Switching of Tunable Single‐Molecule Junctions (Adv. Sci. 5/2015)

Abstract

Molecular electronics aims at using single molecules as active and passive circuit elements. For the development of real electrical circuits, the operation of such molecules in contact to conducting electrodes needs to be demonstrated reliably. In article number 1500017, A. Erbe and co‐workers demonstrate a single molecule switch, the conductance of which can increase by several orders of magnitude when illuminated by light.