The use of molecules bridged between two electrodes as a stable rectifier is an important
goal in molecular electronics. Until recently, however, and despite extensive experimental …

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkanethiols and dialkanethiols on gold are key
elements for building many systems and devices with applications in the wide field of …

Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic
contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck …

The motion of electrons through quantum dots is strongly modified by single-electron
charging and the quantization of energy levels,. Much effort has been directed towards …

Attempts to infer DNA electron transfer from fluorescence quenching measurements,,,,,,,, on
DNA strands doped with donor and acceptor molecules have spurred intense debate, over …

Electric current flow, in transport theory, has usually been viewed as the response to an
applied electric field. Alternatively, current flow can be viewed as a consequence of the …

A reliable method has been developed for making through-bond electrical contacts to
molecules. Current-voltage curves are quantized as integer multiples of one fundamental …

Fullerenes are graphitic cage structures incorporating exactly twelve pentagons. The
smallest possible fullerene is thus C20, which consists solely of pentagons. But the extreme …

▪ Abstract Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces has been a
subject of intensive research due to recent interest in electron-transfer phenomena …

We explore the prospects to control by use of time-dependent fields quantum transport
phenomena in nanoscale systems. In particular, we study for driven conductors the electron …