Electron - Phonon interactions in single octanedithiol molecular junctions

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3823-3830

  Hihath, Joshua ^a   Bruot, Christopher ^a   Tao, Nongjian ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

break junction; IETS; inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy; molecular conductance; molecular electronics

Indexed keywords

BREAK JUNCTIONS; CHARGE TRANSPORT PROCESS; CHARGE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; CONDUCTANCE SWITCHING; CONTACT GEOMETRY; COVALENTLY BOUND; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; INELASTIC SPECTRA; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; OCTANEDITHIOL; PHONON DAMPING; SIMPLE MODEL; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

ELECTRONS;

1,8 OCTANEDITHIOL; 1,8-OCTANEDITHIOL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77955547786     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100470s     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Tao, N. J. Electron Transport in Molecular Junctions Nat. Nanotechnol. 2006, 1, 173-181
2. Park, H.; Park, J.; Lim, A. K. L.; Anderson, E. H.; Alivisatos, A. P.; McEuen, P. L. Nanomechanical Oscillations in a Single-C60 Transistor Nature 2000, 407, 58-60
3. Stipe, B. C.; Rezaei, M. A.; Ho, W. Single-Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy and Microscopy Science 1998, 280, 1732-1735
4. Wang, W.; Lee, T.; Kretzschmar, I.; Reed, M. A. Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy of an Alkanedithiol Self-Assembled Monolayer Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 643-646
5. Kushmerick, J. G.; Lazorcik, J.; Patterson, C. H.; Shashidhar, R.; Seferos, D. S.; Bazan, G. C. Vibronic Contributions to Charge Transport across Molecular Junctions Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 639-642
6. Paulsson, M.; Frederiksen, T.; Brandbyge, M. Inelastic Transport through Molecules: Comparing First-Principles Calculations to Experiments Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 258-262
7. Hihath, J.; Arroyo, C. R.; Rubio-Bollinger, G.; Tao, N.; Agrait, N. Study of Electron - Phonon Interactions in a Single Molecule Covalently Connected to Two Electrodes Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 1673-1678
8. 2 - Pt Bridge Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 2005, 71, 161402/1-161402/4
9. Solomon, G. C.; Gagliardi, A.; Pecchia, A.; Frauenheim, T.; Di Carlo, A.; Reimers, J. R.; Hush, N. S. Understanding the Inelastic Electron-Tunneling Spectra of Alkanedithiols on Gold J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 124, 094704/1-094704/10
10. Pecchia, A.; Di Carlo, A. Incoherent Electron-Phonon Scattering in Octanethiols Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 2109-2114
11. Chen, Y.-C.; Zwolak, M.; Di Ventra, M. Inelastic Effects on the Transport Properties of Alkanethiols Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 621-624
12. Osorio, E. A.; O'Neill, K.; Stuhr-Hansen, N.; Nielsen, O. F.; Bjornholm, T.; van der Zant, H. S. J. Addition Energies and Vibrational Fine Structure Measured in Electromigrated Single-Molecule Junctions Based on an Oligophenylenevinylene Derivative Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 2007, 19, 281-285
13. Troisi, A.; Ratner, M. A. Molecular Transport Junctions: Propensity Rules for Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectra Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 1784-1788 (Pubitemid 44327548)
14. Asai, Y. Nonequilibrium Phonon Effects on Transport Properties through Atomic and Molecular Bridge Junctions Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 2008, 78, 045434-1/045434 - 24
15. Huang, Z.; Chen, F.; D'Agosta, R.; Bennett, P. A.; Di Ventra, M.; Tao, N. Local Ionic and Electron Heating in Single-Molecule Junctions Nat. Nanotechnol. 2007, 2, 698-703
16. Huang, Z. F.; Xu, B. Q.; Chen, Y. C.; Di Ventra, M.; Tao, N. J. Measurement of Current-Induced Local Heating in a Single Molecule Junction Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 1240-1244
17. Xu, B.; Tao, N. J. Measurement of Single-Molecule Resistance by Repeated Formation of Molecular Junctions Science 2003, 301, 1221-1223
18. Ulrich, J.; Esrail, D.; Pontius, W.; Venkataraman, L.; Millar, D.; Doerrer, L. H. Variability of Conductance in Molecular Junctions J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 2462-2466
19. Gonzalez, M. T.; Wu, S.; Huber, R.; van der Molen Sense, J.; Schonenberger, C.; Calame, M. Electrical Conductance of Molecular Junctions by a Robust Statistical Analysis Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 2238-42
20. Li, C.; Pobelov, I.; Wandlowski, T.; Bagrets, A.; Arnold, A.; Evers, F. Charge Transport in Single Au|Alkanedithiol|Au Junctions: Coordination Geometries and Conformational Degrees of Freedom J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 318-326
21. Smit, R. H. M.; Noat, Y.; Untiedt, C.; Lang, N. D.; van Hemert, M. C.; van Ruitenbeek, J. M. Measurement of the Conductance of a Hydrogen Molecule Nature 2002, 419, 906-909
22. Lortscher, E.; Weber, H. B.; Riel, H. Statistical Approach to Investigating Transport through Single Molecules Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 176807/1-176807/4
23. Taniguchi, M.; Tsutsui, M.; Yokota, K.; Kawai, T. Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy of Single-Molecule Junctions Using a Mechanically Controllable Break Junction Nanotechnology 2009, 20, 434008/1-434008/8
24. Li, X.; He, J.; Hihath, J.; Xu, B.; Lindsay, S. M.; Tao, N. Conductance of Single Alkanedithiols. Conduction Mechanism and Effect of Molecule-Electrode Contacts J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2135-2141
25. Jang, S.-Y.; Reddy, P.; Majumdar, A.; Segalman, R. A. Interpretation of Stochastic Events in Single Molecule Conductance Measurements Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 2362-2367
26. Haiss, W.; van Zalinge, H.; Bethell, D.; Ulstrup, J.; Schiffrin, D. J.; Nichols, R. J. Thermal Gating of the Single Molecule Conductance of Alkanedithiols Faraday Discuss. 2006, 131, 253-264 (Pubitemid 44421992)
27. Wang, W. Y.; Lee, T. H.; Reed, M. A. Electronic Transport in Molecular Self-Assembled Monolayer Devices Proc. IEEE 2005, 93, 1815-1824
28. Lambe, J.; Jaklevic, R. C. Molecular Vibration Spectra by Inelastic Electron Tunneling Phys. Rev. 1968, 165, 821-32
29. Jaklevic, R. C.; Lambe, J. Molecular Vibration Spectra by Electron Tunneling Phys. Rev. Lett. 1966, 17, 1139-40
30. Paulsson, M.; Frederiksen, T.; Brandbyge, M. Modeling Inelastic Phonon Scattering in Atomic- and Molecular-Wire Junctions Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 2005, 72, 201101-1/201101 - 4
31. Walczak, K. Vibrational Features in Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectra Chem. Phys. 2007, 333, 63-68
32. Agrait, N.; Yeyati, A. L.; van Ruitenbeek, J. M. Quantum Properties of Atomic-Sized Conductors Phys. Rep. 2003, 377, 81-279
33. Frisch, M. J.; Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Jr., J. A. M.; Vreven, T.; Kudin, K. N.; Burant, J. C.,; et al. Gaussian 03, revision B.04; Gaussian Inc.: Pittsburg, PA, 2003.
34. Pagliai, M.; Bellucci, L.; Muniz-Miranda, M.; Cardini, G.; Schettino, V. A Combined Raman, DFT and MD Study of the Solvation Dynamics and the Adsorption Process of Pyridine in Silver Hydrosols Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, 171-178
35. Wang, W.; Lee, T.; Reed, M. A. Elastic and Inelastic Electron Tunneling in Alkane Self-Assembled Monolayers J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 18398-18407
36. Yu, L. H.; Zangmeister, C. D.; Kushmerick, J. G. Structural Contributions to Charge Transport across Ni-Octanedithiol Multilayer Junctions Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 2515-2519
37. Song, H.; Kim, Y.; Jang, Y. H.; Jeong, H.; Reed, M. A.; Lee, T. Observation of Molecular Orbital Gating Nature 2009, 462, 1039-1043
38. Okabayashi, N.; Komeda, T. Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy with a Dilution Refrigerator Based Scanning Tunneling Microscope Meas. Sci. Technol. 2009, 20, 095602-1-095602-8
39. Arroyo, C. R.; Frederiksen, T.; Rubio-Bollinger, G.; Vélez, M.; Arnau, A.; Sánchez-Portal, D.; Agraït, N. Characterization of Single-Molecule Pentanedithiol Junctions by Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy and First-Principles Calculations Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 2010, 81, 075405-1-075405-5
40. Agrait, N.; Untiedt, C.; Rubio-Bollinger, G.; Vieira, S. Onset of Energy Dissipation in Ballistic Atomic Wires Phys. Rev. Lett. 2002, 88, 216803-1-216803-4
41. Caroli, C.; Saintjam, D; Combesco, R; Nozieres, P. Direct Calculation of Tunnelling Current. 4. Electron - Phonon Interaction Effects J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 1972, 5, 21-42
42. Frederiksen, T.; Paulsson, M.; Brandbyge, M.; Jauho, A. P. Inelastic Transport Theory from First Principles: Methodology and Application to Nanoscale Devices Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 2007, 75, 205413
43. Tikhodeev, S. G.; Ueba, H. Relation between Inelastic Electron Tunneling and Vibrational Excitation of Single Adsorbates on Metal Surfaces Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 2004, 70, 125414
44. Galperin, M.; Ratner, M. A.; Nitzan, A. Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy in Molecular Junctions: Peaks and Dips J. Chem. Phys. 2004, 121, 11965-11979 (Pubitemid 40044296)
45. Petit, C.; Salace, G. Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectrometer to Characterize Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices with Ultrathin Oxides Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2003, 74, 4462-4467