Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.337, 37-42, 1999
Unimolecular electrical rectification by hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide
The asymmetrical DC electrical conductivity (macroscopic and also nanoscopic) through Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers, and even a monolayer, of gamma-(n-hexadecyl)quinolinum tricyanoquinodimethanide, C(16)H(33)Q-3CNQ (1) is due to rectification of electrical current by a molecule.
Keywords:unimolecular rectification;hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide;through-molecule tunneling