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Reversible on/off conductance switching of single diarylethene immobilized on a silicon surface
Kazuki Uchida1, Yoshinori Yamanoi, Tetsu Yonezawa
1Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 31, 2011
Abstract:
The chemical functionalization of hydrogen-terminated silicon(111) surfaces with photochromic diarylethene using an ethylene anchoring group was achieved. Conductive atomic force microscopy measurements showed the current changes on modified silicon electrodes caused by light-induced isomerization of the diarylethene between an open form and a closed form.

