research article
Conductance Switching and Many-Valued Logic in Porphyrin Assemblies
We investigate quantum interference in the transport properties of porphyrin-based molecular devices, and are able to develop a minimal but qualitatively accurate model of conductance based on the maximally localized Wannier functions of just the isolated molecule. We find that transmission at or near the Fermi level can be engineered to vary by orders of magnitude in response to hydrogen tautomerization in the inner ring, a recently developed experimental capability. This allows us to suggest that tape porphyrins can act as molecular-size memory units, displaying many-valued logic.
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000330018700003
Author(s)
Li, Elise Y.
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Published in
Volume
4
Issue
18
Start page
3039
End page
3044
Editorial or Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Written at
EPFL
EPFL units
Available on Infoscience
February 17, 2014
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