Reversible and controllable switching of a single-molecule junction.

This phenomen-on is caused by statisticalfluctuations in the moleculeitself or the molecule–metalcontact. The lack of controlover this type of switchingmakesitessentiallyundesira-ble for any technological ap-plication. Recent experi-ments aiming to identify thefundamental mechanisms re-sponsibleforvoltage-inducedswitching in sandwich struc-tures

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