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    Breakdown of Ohm’s Law in Molecular Junctions with Electrodes of Single-Layer Graphene

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    For sufficiently low biases, Ohm’s law, the cornerstone of electricity, stating that current I and voltage V are proportional, is satisfied at low biases for all known systems ranging from macroscopic conductors to nanojunctions. In this study, we predict theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that in single-molecule junctions fabricated with single-layer graphene as electrodes the current at low V scales as the cube of V, thereby invalidating Ohm’s law. The absence of the ohmic regime is a direct consequence of the unique band structure of the single-layer graphene, whose vanishing density of states at the Dirac points precludes electron transfer from and to the electrodes at low biases

    Ferroelectric Resistive Switching in High-Density Nanocapacitor Arrays Based on BiFeO<sub>3</sub> Ultrathin Films and Ordered Pt Nanoelectrodes

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    Ferroelectric resistive switching (RS), manifested as a switchable ferroelectric diode effect, was observed in well-ordered and high-density nanocapacitor arrays based on continuous BiFeO<sub>3</sub> (BFO) ultrathin films and isolated Pt nanonelectrodes. The thickness of BFO films and the lateral dimension of Pt electrodes were aggressively scaled down to <10 nm and ∼60 nm, respectively, representing an ultrahigh ferroelectric memory density of ∼100 Gbit/inch<sup>2</sup>. Moreover, the RS behavior in those nanocapacitors showed a large ON/OFF ratio (above 10<sup>3</sup>) and a long retention time of over 6,000 s. Our results not only demonstrate for the first time that the switchable ferroelectric diode effect could be realized in BFO films down to <10 nm in thickness, but also suggest the great potentials of those nanocapacitors for applications in high-density data storage
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