Regensburg 2013 – scientific programme

Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Updates | Downloads | Help

CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 21: Transport: Molecular Electronics (joint session TT/CPP/HL/MA)

CPP 21.7: Talk

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:15–11:30, H2

STM theory for π-conjugated molecules on thin insulating films — •Benjamin Siegert, Andrea Donarini, Sandra Sobczyk, and Milena Grifoni — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg

We present a microscopic STM theory, based on the reduced density matrix formalism, which is able to describe transport and topographical properties of interacting π-conjugated molecules on thin insulating films. Simulated current-voltage characteristics and constant height and constant current STM images for a Cu-Phthalocyanine (CuPc) molecule are presented as experimentally relevant examples. We predict negative differential conductance resulting from interference between degenerate many-body states of CuPc [1]. Criteria are given to find and identify the interference blocking scenario in experimental measurements.
[1] A. Donarini, B. Siegert, S. Sobczyk, and M. Grifoni, PRB 86, 155451 (2012).