Electron transport in molecular junctions

NJ Tao - Nature nanotechnology, 2006 - nature.com
Building an electronic device using individual molecules is one of the ultimate goals in
nanotechnology. To achieve this it will be necessary to measure, control and understand …

Measurement of single-molecule conductance

F Chen, J Hihath, Z Huang, X Li… - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem …, 2007 - annualreviews.org
What is the conductance of a single molecule? This basic and seemingly simple question
has been a difficult one to answer for both experimentalists and theorists. To determine the …

Fabricating and controlling molecular self-organization at solid surfaces: Studies by scanning tunneling microscopy

LJ Wan - Accounts of chemical research, 2006 - ACS Publications
This account presents a summary of recent work describing the control and fabrication of self-
organized molecular adlayers on solid substrates. These results demonstrate that …

Mechanism for Negative Differential Resistance in Molecular Electronic Devices:<? format?> Local Orbital Symmetry Matching

L Chen, Z Hu, A Zhao, B Wang, Y Luo, J Yang, JG Hou - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
A new mechanism for negative differential resistance (NDR) originating from local orbital
symmetry matching between an electrode and a molecule in a single molecular electronic …

Self-assembly of the 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane multilayers on Si and hysteretic current–voltage characteristics

AK Chauhan, DK Aswal, SP Koiry, SK Gupta… - Applied Physics A, 2008 - Springer
We report the deposition of 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTMS) multilayers on SiO x/Si
(p++) substrates by a layer-by-layer self-assembly process. The multilayers were grafted in a …

The self-assembly and structural regulation of a hydrogen-bonded dimeric building block formed by two NH··· O hydrogen bonds on HOPG

P Lei, L Ma, S Zhang, J Li, L Gan, K Deng… - Chinese Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The self-assembled behavior of an unsymmetric molecule (BCDTDA) with one imidazole
group as center and benzoic acid group as functional group is studied, and the regulatory …

Single Molecule as a Molecular Rectifier

J Zhao, C Zeng, X Cheng, K Wang, G Wang, J Yang… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
We report a new kind of experimental realization of a molecular rectifier, which is based on a
single azafullerene C 59 N molecule in a double-barrier tunnel junction via the single …

Design and control of electron transport properties of single molecules

S Pan, Q Fu, T Huang, A Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
We demonstrate in this joint experimental and theoretical study how one can alter electron
transport behavior of a single melamine molecule adsorbed on a Cu (100) surface by …

Single-molecule chemistry of metal phthalocyanine on noble metal surfaces

Z Li, B Li, J Yang, JG Hou - Accounts of chemical research, 2010 - ACS Publications
To develop new functional materials and nanoscale electronics, researchers would like to
accurately describe and precisely control the quantum state of a single molecule on a …

Tuning negative differential resistance in a molecular film

M Grobis, A Wachowiak, R Yamachika… - Applied Physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We have observed variable negative differential resistance (NDR) in scanning tunneling
spectroscopy measurements of a double layer of C 60 molecules on a metallic surface …