{"month":"03","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","type":"journal_article","date_created":"2024-09-09T06:43:51Z","external_id":{"pmid":["33288949"]},"page":"313-317","day":"01","pmid":1,"abstract":[{"text":"To rival the performance of modern integrated circuits, single-molecule devices must be designed to exhibit extremely nonlinear current–voltage (I–V) characteristics1,2,3,4. A common approach is to design molecular backbones where destructive quantum interference (QI) between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) produces a nonlinear energy-dependent tunnelling probability near the electrode Fermi energy (EF)5,6,7,8. However, tuning such systems is not straightforward, as aligning the frontier orbitals to EF is hard to control9. Here, we instead create a molecular system where constructive QI between the HOMO and LUMO is suppressed and destructive QI between the HOMO and strongly coupled occupied orbitals of opposite phase is enhanced. We use a series of fluorene oligomers containing a central benzothiadiazole10 unit to demonstrate that this strategy can be used to create highly nonlinear single-molecule circuits. Notably, we are able to reproducibly modulate the conductance of a 6-nm molecule by a factor of more than 10^4.","lang":"eng"}],"citation":{"short":"J.E. Greenwald, J. Cameron, N.J. Findlay, T. Fu, S. Gunasekaran, P.J. Skabara, L. Venkataraman, Nature Nanotechnology 16 (2021) 313–317.","chicago":"Greenwald, Julia E., Joseph Cameron, Neil J. Findlay, Tianren Fu, Suman Gunasekaran, Peter J. Skabara, and Latha Venkataraman. “Highly Nonlinear Transport across Single-Molecule Junctions via Destructive Quantum Interference.” Nature Nanotechnology. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-00807-x.","mla":"Greenwald, Julia E., et al. “Highly Nonlinear Transport across Single-Molecule Junctions via Destructive Quantum Interference.” Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 16, no. 3, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 313–17, doi:10.1038/s41565-020-00807-x.","ama":"Greenwald JE, Cameron J, Findlay NJ, et al. Highly nonlinear transport across single-molecule junctions via destructive quantum interference. Nature Nanotechnology. 2021;16(3):313-317. doi:10.1038/s41565-020-00807-x","apa":"Greenwald, J. E., Cameron, J., Findlay, N. J., Fu, T., Gunasekaran, S., Skabara, P. J., & Venkataraman, L. (2021). Highly nonlinear transport across single-molecule junctions via destructive quantum interference. Nature Nanotechnology. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-00807-x","ieee":"J. E. Greenwald et al., “Highly nonlinear transport across single-molecule junctions via destructive quantum interference,” Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 16, no. 3. Springer Nature, pp. 313–317, 2021.","ista":"Greenwald JE, Cameron J, Findlay NJ, Fu T, Gunasekaran S, Skabara PJ, Venkataraman L. 2021. Highly nonlinear transport across single-molecule junctions via destructive quantum interference. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(3), 313–317."},"_id":"17900","date_published":"2021-03-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"Nature Nanotechnology","extern":"1","year":"2021","date_updated":"2024-12-10T10:20:32Z","doi":"10.1038/s41565-020-00807-x","publication_status":"published","scopus_import":"1","intvolume":" 16","quality_controlled":"1","title":"Highly nonlinear transport across single-molecule junctions via destructive quantum interference","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1748-3395"],"issn":["1748-3387"]},"publisher":"Springer Nature","oa_version":"None","volume":16,"article_processing_charge":"No","issue":"3","OA_type":"closed access","author":[{"last_name":"Greenwald","first_name":"Julia E.","full_name":"Greenwald, Julia E."},{"full_name":"Cameron, Joseph","first_name":"Joseph","last_name":"Cameron"},{"full_name":"Findlay, Neil J.","last_name":"Findlay","first_name":"Neil J."},{"last_name":"Fu","first_name":"Tianren","full_name":"Fu, Tianren"},{"full_name":"Gunasekaran, Suman","last_name":"Gunasekaran","first_name":"Suman"},{"full_name":"Skabara, Peter J.","last_name":"Skabara","first_name":"Peter J."},{"id":"9ebb78a5-cc0d-11ee-8322-fae086a32caf","full_name":"Venkataraman, Latha","orcid":"0000-0002-6957-6089","last_name":"Venkataraman","first_name":"Latha"}]}