Regensburg 2010 – scientific programme

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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 36: TR: Poster Session

TT 36.21: Poster

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 14:00–18:00, Poster A

Electron Transport through Molecular Junctions — Dirk Broßell, •Ole Pfoch, and Barbara Sandow — Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Arminallee 14, 14195 Berlin

Molecular switches with characteristic conductance attributes are highly favoured as new generation of nanoelectronic devices. Switching between stable isomers occurs by interaction with light, by current and magnetic field. Using mechanically controllable break junction we can fabricate stable metal-molecule-metal junctions. We present our newly developed break junction experiment which has been used to study the transport and switching properties of a gold-molecule-gold junction or a copper-molecule-copper junction, i.e. with a molecular switch like azobenzene.