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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 23: Transport: Nanoelectronics III - Molecular Electronics

TT 23.10: Talk

Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 12:00–12:15, HSZ 105

Interplay of Mechanical and Electrical Degrees of Freedom in Molecular Junctions — •Florian Pump1, Cormac Toher1, Ruslan Temirov2, Olga Neucheva2, Serguei Soubatch2, Stefan Tautz2, Michael Rohlfing3, and Gianaurelio Cuniberti11Institute for Materials Science, Dresden University of Technology, D-01062 Dresden — 2Institut für Bio- und Nanosysteme 3, JARA, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich — 3Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück

The electronic transport properties of molecular junctions are very sensitive to the contact configuration which is usually not very well known. One type of setup which allows more control over the contact geometry uses an STM (scanning tunnelling microscope) tip as one of the electrodes enabling the investigation of both the electronic and geometric structure of the junction. We present, using the non-equilibrium Green function formalism in combination with DFT [2-4], the results of our recent calculations related to a set of experiments studying PTCDA on metallic surfaces [1]. The calculations allow for the systematic investigation of the effect of the contact geometry on the transport properties of molecular junctions, which should in turn improve the agreement between theory and experiment.

[1] R. Temirov, A. Lassise, F. B. Anders, and F. S. Tautz, Nanotechnology 19, 065401 (2008).

[2] F. Pump et al., Appl. Phys. A 93, 335 (2008).

[3] A. R. Rocha et al., Phys. Rev. B 73, 085414 (2006).

[4] A. Pecchia and A. Di Carlo, Rep. Prog. Phys. 67, 1497 (2004).

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