Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

High hopes: can molecular electronics realise its potential?

A Coskun, JM Spruell, G Barin, WR Dichtel… - Chemical society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulating and controlling the self-organisation of small collections of molecules, as an
alternative to investigating individual molecules, has motivated researchers bent on …

Density-functional method for nonequilibrium electron transport

M Brandbyge, JL Mozos, P Ordejón, J Taylor, K Stokbro - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport,
and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite …

Thermoelectricity in molecular junctions

P Reddy, SY Jang, RA Segalman, A Majumdar - Science, 2007 - science.org
By trapping molecules between two gold electrodes with a temperature difference across
them, the junction Seebeck coefficients of 1, 4-benzenedithiol (BDT), 4, 4 …

Ab initio modeling of open systems: Charge transfer, electron conduction, and molecular switching of a device

J Taylor, H Guo, J Wang - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We present an ab initio analysis of electron conduction through a C 60 molecular device.
Charge transfer from the device electrodes to the molecular region is found to play a crucial …

[图书][B] Handbook of nanoscience, engineering, and technology

WA Goddard III, D Brenner, SE Lyshevski, GJ Iafrate - 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is
leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are …

Measurement of single molecule conductance: Benzenedithiol and benzenedimethanethiol

Xiao, B Xu, NJ Tao - Nano letters, 2004 - ACS Publications
We have studied electron transport properties of benzenedithiol and benzenedimethanethiol
covalently bonded to gold electrodes by repeatedly creating a large number of molecular …

Conductance of single alkanedithiols: conduction mechanism and effect of molecule− electrode contacts

X Li, J He, J Hihath, B Xu, SM Lindsay… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - ACS Publications
The conductance of single alkanedithiols covalently bound to gold electrodes has been
studied by statistical analysis of repeatedly created molecular junctions. For each molecule …

Thermoelectric effect in molecular electronics

M Paulsson, S Datta - Physical Review B, 2003 - APS
We provide a theoretical estimate of the thermoelectric current and voltage over a
Phenyldithiol molecule. We also show that the thermoelectric voltage is (1) easy to …

[图书][B] Nanostructures: theory and modeling

CJ Delerue, M Lannoo - 2013 - books.google.com
Progress in nanoscience is becoming increasingly dependent on simulation and modelling.
This is due to a combination of three factors: the reduced size of nano-objects, the …