Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Nanotransport in Oligophenylene Dithiol Junctions as a Function of Molecular Length and Contact Work Function

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8022-8036

  Xie, Zuoti ^a   Bâldea, Ioan ^b,c   Smith, Christopher E ^a   Wu, Yanfei ^a   Frisbie, C Daniel ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

charge transport; molecular electronics; molecular junctions; oligophenylene dithiol; transport model; tunneling; work function

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIAS VOLTAGE; CALCULATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMI LEVEL; METALS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PROBES; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; WORK FUNCTION;

AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; CONDUCTING PROBE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPIES; DIRECT QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; DITHIOLS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; SCANNING KELVIN PROBE MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT MODELING; UV-VISIBLE ABSORPTION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84940061422     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01629     Document Type: Article

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