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 …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: Theory of quantum transport in molecular junctions

M Thoss, F Evers - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular junctions, where single molecules are bound to metal or semiconductor
electrodes, represent a unique architecture to investigate molecules in a distinct …

Break-junctions for investigating transport at the molecular scale

F Schwarz, E Lörtscher - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Break-junctions (BJs) enable a pair of atomic-sized electrodes to be created and the relative
position between them to be controlled with sub-nanometer accuracy by mechanical means …

Single-molecule quantum-transport phenomena in break junctions

P Gehring, JM Thijssen, HSJ van der Zant - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Single-molecule junctions—devices in which a single molecule is electrically connected by
two electrodes—enable the study of a broad range of quantum-transport phenomena even …

Molecular transport junctions: vibrational effects

M Galperin, MA Ratner, A Nitzan - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Transport of electrons in a single molecule junction is the simplest problem in the general
subject area of molecular electronics. In the past few years, this area has been extended to …

Mapping the transmission functions of single-molecule junctions

B Capozzi, JZ Low, J Xia, ZF Liu, JB Neaton… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Charge transport phenomena in single-molecule junctions are often dominated by
tunneling, with a transmission function dictating the probability that electrons or holes tunnel …

Single-molecule junctions beyond electronic transport

SV Aradhya, L Venkataraman - Nature nanotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
The idea of using individual molecules as active electronic components provided the
impetus to develop a variety of experimental platforms to probe their electronic transport …

Molecular transport junctions: Clearing mists

SM Lindsay, MA Ratner - Advanced Materials, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in the measurement and modeling of transport in molecular junctions has
been very significant. Tunnel transport in the Landauer–Imry regime is now broadly …

Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces

A Nitzan - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces has been a
subject of intensive research due to recent interest in electron-transfer phenomena …

Microscopic study of electrical transport through individual molecules with metallic contacts. II. Effect of the interface structure

Y Xue, MA Ratner - Physical Review B, 2003 - APS
We investigate the effect on molecular transport due to the different structural aspects of
metal-molecule interfaces. The example system chosen is the prototypical molecular device …