Electron transport in molecular wire junctions

A Nitzan, MA Ratner - Science, 2003 - science.org
Molecular conductance junctions are structures in which single molecules or small groups of
molecules conduct electrical current between two electrodes. In such junctions, the …

Driven quantum transport on the nanoscale

S Kohler, J Lehmann, P Hänggi - Physics Reports, 2005 - Elsevier
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 …

Effect of local environment on molecular conduction: Isolated molecule versus self-assembled monolayer

Y Selzer, L Cai, MA Cabassi, Y Yao, JM Tour… - Nano …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Developing a fundamental understanding of molecular conduction in different device
environments is essential to the advance of molecular electronics. We show through a …

Molecular wires

DK James, JM Tour - Molecular Wires and Electronics, 2005 - Springer
Molecular wires are compounds that are proposed to be used in molecular electronic and
optoelectronic devices to replace the metal and silicon-based wires in semiconductor …

An overview of the first half‐century of molecular electronics

NS Hush - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The seminal ideas from which molecular electronics has developed were the theories of
molecular conduction advanced in the late 1940s by Robert S. Mulliken and Albert Szent …

A single-level tunnel model to account for electrical transport through single molecule-and self-assembled monolayer-based junctions

AR Garrigues, L Yuan, L Wang, ER Mucciolo… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We present a theoretical analysis aimed at understanding electrical conduction in molecular
tunnel junctions. We focus on discussing the validity of coherent versus incoherent …

Electrostatic potential profiles of molecular conductors

GC Liang, AW Ghosh, M Paulsson, S Datta - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
The electrostatic potential across a short ballistic molecular conductor depends sensitively
on the geometry of its environment, and can affect its conduction significantly by influencing …

The Appropriateness of Density‐Functional Theory for the Calculation of Molecular Electronics Properties

JR Reimers, ZLI CAI, A Bilić… - Annals of the New York …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
As molecular electronics advances, efficient and reliable computation procedures are
required for the simulation of the atomic structures of actual devices, as well as for the …

[HTML][HTML] Design principles of dual-functional molecular switches in solid-state tunnel junctions

D Thompson, E Barco, CA Nijhuis - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular electronics has improved tremendously over the past 20 years, but it remains
challenging to develop molecular switches that operate well in two-terminal tunnel junctions …

Electrostatic control over temperature-dependent tunnelling across a single-molecule junction

AR Garrigues, L Wang, E Del Barco… - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding how the mechanism of charge transport through molecular tunnel junctions
depends on temperature is crucial to control electronic function in molecular electronic …