Molecular Transport Through Single Molecules

P. Stampfuß, J. Heurich, M. Wegewijs, M. Hettler, J. C. Cuevas, H. Schoeller, W. Wenzel () and G. Schön
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P. Stampfuß: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie
J. Heurich: Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik
M. Wegewijs: RWTH Aachen, Theoretische Physik A
M. Hettler: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie
J. C. Cuevas: Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik
H. Schoeller: RWTH Aachen, Theoretische Physik A
W. Wenzel: RWTH Aachen, Theoretische Physik A

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’03, 2003, pp 403-418 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Present trends in the miniaturization of electronic devices suggest that ultimately single molecules may be used as electronically active elements in a variety of applications [1, 2]. Recent advances in the manipulation of single molecules now permit to contact an individual molecule between two electrodes (see Fig. 1) and measure its electronic transport properties [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Interesting and novel effects, such as negative differential conductance [9], were observed in some of these experiments, which still, by-and-large, beg theoretical explanation. In addition to generic principles of nanoscale physics, e.g. Coulomb blockade [6, 10, 11], the chemistry and geometry of the molecular junction emerge as the fundamental tunable characteristics of molecular junctions [3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16].

Keywords: High Occupied Molecular Orbital; Central Cluster; Lower Unoccupied Molecular Orbital; Gold Atom; Electronic Structure Calculation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55876-4_30

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