A thin-film single-electron molecular transistor with a molecule an aurophilic derivative of terpiridine based on the Rh atom was manufactured. A technique has been developed for isolating the side gates of the transistor, it is shown that the insulation resistance of the gate exceeds 1T, which reliably provides the field effect of the control electrode on the island of the transistor. Measurements of the current-voltage characteristics of the fabricated transistors at T=77.4 K showed that they have Coulomb blockade sections of 500-800 mV, which indicates a correlated (single-electron) nature of the electron transport in the resulting transistor and the formation, taking into account the structure of the molecule used, of a single-electron atomic transistor based on single atom of rhodium.
single-electron tunneling, molecules, nanolithography, nanostructures, nanotransistor, nanoelectronics, molecular electronics
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