Using individual molecules as conducting bridges for electrons offers opportunities when
investigating quantum phenomena that are not readily accessible from experiments …

Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

“Molecular electronics” can be defined narrowly (sensu stricto) as the study of electrical and
electronic processes measured or controlled on a molecular scale. 1 When results on single …

Di-thiol–benzene (DTB) is one of the most intensively studied systems, both experimentally
and theoretically, for electron transport in molecules. Despite this, there persists a gap of …

Ab initio total energy calculations reveal benzene-dithiolate molecules on a gold surface,
contacted by a monatomic gold STM tip to have two classes of low-energy conformations …

One of the ultimate miniaturizations in nanotechnology is molecular electronics, where
devices will consist of individual molecules. There are many complications associated with …

We present a theoretical study of spin-dependent transport through molecular wires bridging
ferromagnetic metal nanocontacts. We extend to magnetic systems a recently proposed …

Six customized phenylene-ethynylene-based oligomers have been studied for their
electronic properties using scanning tunneling microscopy to test hypothesized mechanisms …

We present a scheme for calculating coherent electron transport in atomic-scale contacts.
The method combines a formally exact Green's function formalism with a mean-field …

We identify experimental signatures in the current-voltage (IV) characteristics of weakly
contacted molecules directly arising from excitations in their many electron spectrum. The …