Unimolecular rectifier
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Unimolecular rectifier
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A unimolecular rectifier is a single organic molecule which functions as a rectifier of electric current. The idea was first proposed in 1974 by Arieh Aviram, then at IBM, and Mark Ratner, then at New York University. Their publication was the first serious and concrete theoretical proposal in the new field of molecular electronics (UE).
Based on the mesomeric effect of certain chemical compounds on organic molecules, a molecular rectifier was built by simulating the pn junction with the help of
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