Bonding and electronic transport properties of fullerene and fullerene derivatives in break-junction geometries

Emanuel Lörtscher; Victor Geskin; Bernd Gotsmann; Jeppe Fock; Jakob Kryger Sørensen; Thomas Bjørnholm; Jérôme Cornil; Herre S.J. van der Zant; Heike Riel

doi:10.1002/smll.201201688

Bonding and electronic transport properties of fullerene and fullerene derivatives in break-junction geometries

Emanuel Lörtscher
, Victor Geskin
, Bernd Gotsmann
, Jeppe Fock
, Jakob Kryger Sørensen
, Thomas Bjørnholm
, Jérôme Cornil
, Herre S.J. van der Zant
, Heike Riel

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Abstract

Fullerenes are considered anchoring groups for molecular electronics due to a large contact area and their affinity for noble metals. The conductances of fullerene-terminated molecules, however, are found to be even lower than for thiol termination. The effects of weak molecule-metal coupling and symmetry breaking are studied by transport measurements of C and functionalized C. The results demonstrate highy efficient contacts between Au and C, despite of deposition from solution. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Original language	English
Journal	Small
Volume	9
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	209-214
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1613-6810
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201201688
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

molecular electronics
break-junctions
single-molecule transport
fullerenes
molecule-metal contacts

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Bonding and electronic transport properties of fullerene and fullerene derivatives in break-junction geometries

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