A surprising way to control the charge transport in molecular electronics: the subtle impact of the coverage of self-assembled monolayers of floppy molecules adsorbed on metallic electrodes.
A surprising way to control the charge transport in molecular electronics: the subtle impact of the coverage of self-assembled monolayers of floppy molecules adsorbed on metallic electrodes.
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控制分子电子学中电荷传输的一种令人惊讶的方法:吸附在金属电极上的软盘分子自组装单层覆盖的微妙影响
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10.1039/c7fd00101k
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2017
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
I. Bâldea
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作者:
I. Bâldea
Inspired by earlier attempts in organic electronics aiming at controlling charge injection from metals into organic materials by manipulating the Schottky energy barrier using self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), recent experimental and theoretical work in molecular electronics showed that metal–organic interfaces can be controlled via changes in the metal work function that are induced by SAMs. In this paper we indicate a different route to achieve interface-driven control over the charge transfer/transport at the molecular scale. It is based on the fact that, in floppy molecule based SAMs, the molecular conformation can be tuned by varying the coverage of the adsorbate. We demonstrate this effect with the aid of benchmark molecules that are often used to fabricate nanojunctions and consist of two rings that can easily rotate relative to each other. We show that, by varying the coverage of the SAM, the twisting angle φ of the considered molecular species can be modified by a factor of two. Given the fact that the low bias conductance G scales as cos2 φ, this results in a change in G of over one order of magnitude for the considered molecular species. Tuning the twisting angle by controlling the SAM coverage may be significant, e.g., for current efforts to fabricate molecular switches. Conversely, the lack of control over the local SAM coverage may be problematic for the reproducibility and interpretation of the STM (scanning tunneling microscope) measurements on repeatedly forming single molecule break junctions.
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影响因子:
2.3
作者:
I. Bâldea
通讯作者:
I. Bâldea
影响因子:
15
作者:
Zuoti Xie;I. Bâldea;A. Demissie;Christopher E. Smith;Yanfei Wu;G. Haugstad;C. Frisbie
通讯作者:
Zuoti Xie;I. Bâldea;A. Demissie;Christopher E. Smith;Yanfei Wu;G. Haugstad;C. Frisbie
影响因子:
6.7
作者:
Baldea, Ioan
通讯作者:
Baldea, Ioan
影响因子:
17.1
作者:
Zuoti Xie;I. Bâldea;S. Oram;Christopher E. Smith;C. Frisbie
通讯作者:
Zuoti Xie;I. Bâldea;S. Oram;Christopher E. Smith;C. Frisbie
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发表时间:
1998
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影响因子:
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作者:
F. Arce;M. E. Vela;R. Salvarezza;A. Arvia
通讯作者:
A. Arvia