A priori method for propensity rules for inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of single-molecule conduction

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作者
Gagliardi, Alessio [1 ]
Solomon, Gemma C.
Pecchia, Alessandro
Frauenheim, Thomas
Di Carlo, Aldo
Hush, Noel S.
Reimers, Jeffrey R.
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[1] Univ Bremen, Bremen Ctr Computat Mat Sci, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
[2] Univ Gesamthsch Paderborn, PaSCO Grad Sch, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
[3] Northwestern Univ, Dept Chem, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[4] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dept Elect Engn, CNR, INFM, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[5] Univ Sydney, Sch Chem, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2007年 / 75卷 / 17期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.75.174306
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An a priori computational method for determining intensities in inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) is developed that allows simple, chemically intuitive propensity rules to be obtained for arbitrary applications. The molecule is shown to scatter charges between quite specific eigenchannels of lead-coupling-weighted molecular density of states. This allows mode-specific scattering sites to be identified within the molecule, indicating how external chemical or other perturbations could be used to control IETS intensities.
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