Langmuir Blodgett films for molecular electronics

Molecular electronics is bottom up approach for the fabrication of junctions containing function molecular components capable of replicating or surpassing their top-down semi-conductor counterparts. Whilst single molecule junctions are uniquely placed to inform our fundamental knowledge of molecular transport – often dominated by quantum effects – practical realization of molecular-based devices requires scalability to controlled thin-film architectures. Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) deposition has long been the fabrication technique of choice for highly-ordered molecular electronics films.