Nikolai B Zhitenev et al 2006 Nanotechnology 17 1272 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/17/5/019
Nikolai B Zhitenev1,5, Weirong Jiang1,2, Artur Erbe3, Zhenan Bao4, Eric Garfunkel2, Donald M Tennant1 and Raymond A Cirelli1
Show affiliationsThe transport properties of metal–molecule–metal junctions containing a monolayer of conjugated and saturated molecules with characteristic dimensions in the range 30–300 nm are correlated with microscopic topography, stress and chemical bonding at the metal–molecule interfaces. Our statistically significant dataset allows us to conclude that the conductivity of organic molecules ~1.5 nm long is at least four orders of magnitude lower than is commonly believed.
73.63.-b Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures
68.37.-d Microscopy of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films
73.40.Rw Metal-insulator-metal structures
Surfaces, interfaces and thin films
Issue 5 (14 March 2006)
Received 14 October 2005
Published 7 February 2006
Nikolai B Zhitenev et al 2006 Nanotechnology 17 1272
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