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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 24: Molecular Electronics and Photonics
TT 24.7: Talk
Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 11:15–11:30, H22
Electron Transport through single Mn-salen molecule: Experimental Study — •Filip Kilibarda1,4, Lokamani Lokamani1, Torsten Sendler1, Michael Mortensen2, Kurt Gothelf2, Peter Zahn1, Sibylle Gemming1,3, and Artur Erbe1,4 — 1Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany — 2iNANO and Dept. of Chemistry, University Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark — 3Institute of Physics, Technische Universität, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany — 4Dept. of Physics, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Molecular electronics offers new ways for scaling down nanoelectronic components and making their production and operation more energy efficient. Our research focuses on classifying different molecules with the help of Mechanically Controlled Break Junction (MCBJ).
Here, we perform measurements on salen molecule and metal-salen complexes in liquid environments. They are explored as candidates for “chemical doping”, because they provide the possibility to fine-tune electrical properties by using different molecular inclusions. We measure both constant voltage vs. distance and IV characteristic of our metal-molecule-metal junctions.
Measurements are then fitted to a theoretical model, which takes the contribution of a single molecular level into account. From this model the energy of the molecular level and the coupling to the electrodes can be extracted and compared to first principles calculations.