Abstract
Photoirradiation of monolayers incorporating a silver cation result in metal/monolayer/metal devices.
Highlights
Significant problems in the fabrication of the top-contact electrode include damage of the functional single layer films during the deposition of the top, usually metallic, electrode by methods such as thermal evaporation, and penetration of the growing top-contact through the monolayer, which results in short circuits
Strategies from our group concerning the fabrication of the topcontact electrode have included the thermal induced decomposition of an organometallic compound (TIDOC) method,[9] chemisorption of gold nanoparticles onto a monolayer surface-functionalised with a terminal alkyne moiety (–CCH) resulting in the formation of a s C–Au bond,[10] and photoreduction of a gold precursor incorporated into the monolayer.[11]
A metal precursor ([AuCl4]À) was incorporated onto a Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film from the sub-phase during the fabrication process, with subsequent photoreduction leading to the formation of metallic gold nano-islands (GNIs) on top of the intact molecular film
Summary
Strategies from our group concerning the fabrication of the topcontact electrode have included the thermal induced decomposition of an organometallic compound (TIDOC) method,[9] chemisorption of gold nanoparticles onto a monolayer surface-functionalised with a terminal alkyne moiety (–CCH) resulting in the formation of a s C–Au bond,[10] and photoreduction of a gold precursor incorporated into the monolayer.[11].
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