Journal
MATERIALS HORIZONS
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 124-129Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5mh00223k
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Funding
- National 973 Program [2013CB733700]
- NSFC [21421004, 21325625]
- NSFC/China
- Shanghai Pujiang Program [13PJD010]
- Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation [142014]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [222201313010, WK1314008, WJ1416005]
- Scientific Committee of Shanghai [15XD1501400]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1213358]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1213358] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Logic is the key to computing. Traditionally, logic devices have been fabricated by the top-down approach, whose dimensions are drastically limited. The ultimate goal is to use molecular tailorability to design logics using the bottom-up'' approach. Here we report an unprecedented photochromic molecule that undergoes unimolecular logic switching when excited anywhere in the entire UV-visible spectrum, thus a bottom-up, all-photonic, molecular logic gate. Specifically, these molecular photonic logics embedded in the polymer thin films function as the AND'' or OR'' gate at different temporal responses. To achieve high information-processing density, moreover, a ternary flip-flap-flop gate is realized in the molecular logic because the fact that this photochromic molecule can be photoswitched anywhere in its UV-vis spectrum enabled three different lasers (532, 473, and 561 nm) as the inputs to deliver the complex logic optical outputs.
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