Electrical conductance study on 1,3-butadiyne-linked dinuclear ruthenium(ii) complexes within single molecule break junctions

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 2471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Min Wen ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Xiao-Shun Zhou ◽  
Jun-Yang Liu ◽  
Dao-Bin Zhang ◽  
...  
2014 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Wang ◽  
Joseph Hamill ◽  
Jianfeng Zhou ◽  
Cunlan Guo ◽  
Bingqian Xu

The lack of detailed experimental controls has been one of the major obstacles hindering progress in molecular electronics. While large fluctuations have been occurring in the experimental data, specific details, related mechanisms, and data analysis techniques are in high demand to promote our physical understanding at the single-molecule level. A series of modulations we recently developed, based on traditional scanning probe microscopy break junctions (SPMBJs), have helped to discover significant properties in detail which are hidden in the contact interfaces of a single-molecule break junction (SMBJ). For example, in the past we have shown that the correlated force and conductance changes under the saw tooth modulation and stretch–hold mode of PZT movement revealed inherent differences in the contact geometries of a molecular junction. In this paper, using a bias-modulated SPMBJ and utilizing emerging data analysis techniques, we report on the measurement of the altered alignment of the HOMO of benzene molecules with changing the anchoring group which coupled the molecule to metal electrodes. Further calculations based on Landauer fitting and transition voltage spectroscopy (TVS) demonstrated the effects of modulated bias on the location of the frontier molecular orbitals. Understanding the alignment of the molecular orbitals with the Fermi level of the electrodes is essential for understanding the behaviour of SMBJs and for the future design of more complex devices. With these modulations and analysis techniques, fruitful information has been found about the nature of the metal–molecule junction, providing us insightful clues towards the next step for in-depth study.


2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 033904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler K. Johnson ◽  
Jeffrey A. Ivie ◽  
Jason Jaruvang ◽  
Oliver L. A. Monti

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (22) ◽  
pp. 6578-6581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali K. Ismael ◽  
Colin J. Lambert

We investigate the single-molecule electrical conductance of alkane rings connected to gold electrodes and demonstrate that their logarithmic conductances are ocillatory functions of length.


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2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2809-2813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Xiang ◽  
Hyunhak Jeong ◽  
Dongku Kim ◽  
Takhee Lee ◽  
Yongjin Cheng ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin He ◽  
Otto Sankey ◽  
Myeong Lee ◽  
Nongjian Tao ◽  
Xiulan Li ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
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pp. 065008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian A Martin ◽  
Dapeng Ding ◽  
Herre S J van der Zant ◽  
Jan M van Ruitenbeek

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo Frisenda ◽  
Loredana Parlato ◽  
Mario Barra ◽  
Herre S.J. van der Zant ◽  
Antonio Cassinese

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 1080-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Huber ◽  
Maria Teresa González ◽  
Songmei Wu ◽  
Michael Langer ◽  
Sergio Grunder ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 013102 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Muthusubramanian ◽  
E. Galan ◽  
C. Maity ◽  
R. Eelkema ◽  
F. C. Grozema ◽  
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