A first-principles study of aryloxyanthraquinone-based optical molecular switch

Current–Voltage Characteristics of the Aziridine-Based Nano-Molecular Wires: a Light-Driven Molecular Switch

“…With the smaller size of traditional electron devices and the advancement of nanotechnology and microfabrication, using molecules as components in atomicscale circuits has become an attractive field, and nanomaterials have become one of the most dazzling stars in the twenty-first century. [1,2] Because of its inimitable applications and physical properties, various nanostructures have been synthesized, [3,4] and these structures display significant promise as logic functionality, [5] solar cells, [6] switches, [7,8] radio-frequency communication circuitry, [9] photocatalyst, [10] field-effect transistors, [11,12] quantum dots, [13,14] nonvolatile memory devices, [15] biological sensors, [16] as well as developing optical and photonic detectors, [9,17] lightemitting diodes, [16,17] and so on. [18,19] Among these devices, molecular switches, especially the optical switches, have drawn considerable attention in recent years because they are considered to play an essential role in the future logic and memory.…”