Electrical conductance of molecular junctions by a robust statistical analysis

被引：183

作者：

Gonzalez, M. Teresa ^{[1
]}

Wu, Songmei ^{[1
]}

Huber, Roman ^{[1
]}

van der Molen, Sense J. ^{[1
]}

Schoenenberger, Christian ^{[1
]}

Calame, Michel ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

来源：

NANO LETTERS | 2006年 / 6卷 / 10期

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D O I：

10.1021/nl061581e

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

We propose an objective and robust method to extract the electrical conductance of single molecules connected to metal electrodes from a set of measured conductance data. Our method roots in the physics of tunneling and is tested on octanedithiol using mechanically controllable break junctions. The single molecule conductance values can be deduced without the need for data selection.

引用

页码：2238 / 2242

页数：5

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