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Título: | Atomic-scale engineering of electrodes for single-molecule contacts |
Autor: | Schull, Guillaume; Frederiksen, Thomas; Arnau, Andrés CSIC ORCID; Sánchez-Portal, Daniel CSIC ORCID ; Berndt, Richard | Fecha de publicación: | ene-2011 | Editor: | Nature Publishing Group | Citación: | Nature Nanotechnology 6(1): 23-27 (2011) | Resumen: | The transport of charge through a conducting material depends on the intrinsic ability of the material to conduct current and on the charge injection efficiency at the contacts between the conductor and the electrodes carrying current to and from the material1, 2, 3. According to theoretical considerations4, this concept remains valid down to the limit of single-molecule junctions5. Exploring this limit in experiments requires atomic-scale control of the junction geometry. Here we present a method for probing the current through a single C60 molecule while changing, one by one, the number of atoms in the electrode that are in contact with the molecule. We show quantitatively that the contact geometry has a strong influence on the conductance. We also find a crossover from a regime in which the conductance is limited by charge injection at the contact to a regime in which the conductance is limited by scattering at the molecule. Thus, the concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ contacts, commonly used in macro- and mesoscopic physics, can also be applied at the molecular scale. | Descripción: | 5 páginas, 4 figuras. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.215 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/48293 | DOI: | 10.1038/nnano.2010.215 | ISSN: | 1748-3387 | E-ISSN: | 1748-3395 |
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