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Yaqi Zhang1,2,3, Yaxuan Zhang2,3, Ting Pan2,3
1Department of Chemistry and Innovation Center of Pesticide Research, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.
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Electric-field-directed self-assembly enables unidirectional monolayer junction formation on a gold substrate via terminal asymmetric Au-S and Au-C contacts, yielding stable rectifiers with defined polarity and diode I-V characteristics. This strategy defines a programmable method enabling the realization of uniform molecular-scale electronic devices through self-assembly.
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