Characteristics of amine-ended and thiol-ended alkane single-molecule junctions revealed by inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4104-4111

  Kim, Youngsang ^a   Hellmuth, Thomas Julian ^b   Bürkle, Marius ^b   Pauly, Fabian ^b   Scheer, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anchoring groups; Conductance measurement; Density functional theory; Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy; Molecular electronics; Single molecule junction

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING GROUPS; CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRODES; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

ALKANE; AMINE; NANOMATERIAL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALKANES; AMINES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 80051492003     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200759s     Document Type: Article

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