Advance of Mechanically Controllable Break Junction for Molecular Electronics

2017 ◽  
pp. 45-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Wang ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Dong Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
Break Junction

Measurement and control of detailed electronic properties in a single molecule break junction

2014 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Wang ◽  
Joseph Hamill ◽  
Jianfeng Zhou ◽  
Cunlan Guo ◽  
Bingqian Xu
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
Single Molecule ◽  
Molecular Orbitals ◽  
Break Junction ◽  
Break Junctions ◽  
Single Molecule Level ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Molecule Junction

The lack of detailed experimental controls has been one of the major obstacles hindering progress in molecular electronics. While large fluctuations have been occurring in the experimental data, specific details, related mechanisms, and data analysis techniques are in high demand to promote our physical understanding at the single-molecule level. A series of modulations we recently developed, based on traditional scanning probe microscopy break junctions (SPMBJs), have helped to discover significant properties in detail which are hidden in the contact interfaces of a single-molecule break junction (SMBJ). For example, in the past we have shown that the correlated force and conductance changes under the saw tooth modulation and stretch–hold mode of PZT movement revealed inherent differences in the contact geometries of a molecular junction. In this paper, using a bias-modulated SPMBJ and utilizing emerging data analysis techniques, we report on the measurement of the altered alignment of the HOMO of benzene molecules with changing the anchoring group which coupled the molecule to metal electrodes. Further calculations based on Landauer fitting and transition voltage spectroscopy (TVS) demonstrated the effects of modulated bias on the location of the frontier molecular orbitals. Understanding the alignment of the molecular orbitals with the Fermi level of the electrodes is essential for understanding the behaviour of SMBJs and for the future design of more complex devices. With these modulations and analysis techniques, fruitful information has been found about the nature of the metal–molecule junction, providing us insightful clues towards the next step for in-depth study.

Advance of Mechanically Controllable Break Junction for Molecular Electronics

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Wang ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Dong Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
Break Junction

scholarly journals Molecular Electronics: Bonding and Electronic Transport Properties of Fullerene and Fullerene Derivatives in Break-Junction Geometries (Small 2/2013)

Small ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Lörtscher ◽  
Victor Geskin ◽  
Bernd Gotsmann ◽  
Jeppe Fock ◽  
Jakob Kryger Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transport Properties ◽  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
Electronic Transport ◽  
Break Junction ◽  
Fullerene Derivatives ◽  
Electronic Transport Properties

Transmission Electron Microscopy of Evaporated Perylene Thin Films

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-337
Author(s):  
C. Ewins ◽  
J.R. Fryer
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Thin Films ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
High Vacuum ◽  
Amorphous Layer ◽  
Electric Heater ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

The preparation of thin films of organic molecules is currently receiving much attention because of the need to produce good quality thin films for molecular electronics. We have produced thin films of the polycyclic aromatic, perylene C10H12 by evaporation under high vacuum onto a potassium chloride (KCl) substrate. The role of substrate temperature in determining the morphology and crystallography of the films was then investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).The substrate studied was the (001) face of a freshly cleaved crystal of KCl. The temperature of the KCl was controlled by an electric heater or a cold finger. The KCl was heated to 200°C under a vacuum of 10-6 torr and allowed to cool to the desired temperature. The perylene was then evaporated over a period of one minute from a molybdenum boat at a distance of 10cm from the KCl. The perylene thin film was then backed with an amorphous layer of carbon and floated onto copper microscope grids.

Thermoelectric properties of B12N12 molecule

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Niazian ◽  
Laleh Farhang Matin ◽  
Mojtaba Yaghobi ◽  
Amir Ali Masoudi
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
Thermoelectric Properties ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Thermal Conductance ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Oscillatory Behavior ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Junction Points ◽  
Inelastic Behaviour ◽  
New Generation

Background: Recently, molecular electronics have attracted the attention of many researchers, both theoretically and applied electronics.Nanostructures have significant thermal properties, which is why they are considered as good options for designing a new generation of integrated electronic devices. Objective: In this paper, the focus is on the thermoelectric properties of the molecular junction points with the electrodes. Also, the influence of the number of atom contacts was investigated on the thermoelectric properties of molecule located between two electrodes metallic.Therefore, the thermoelectric characteristics of the B12 N12 molecule are investigated. Methods: For this purpose, the Green’s function theory as well as mapping technique approach with the wide-band approximation and also the inelastic behaviour is considered for the electron-phonon interactions. Results & Conclusion: Results & Conclusion:It is observed that the largest values of the total part of conductance as well as its elastic (G(e,n)max) depends on the number of atom contacts and are arranged as: G(e,1)max>G(e,4)max>G(e,6)max. Furthermore, the largest values of the electronic thermal conductance, i.e. Kpmax is seen to be in the order of K(p,4)max < K(p,1)max < K(p,6)max that the number of main peaks increases in four-atom contacts at (E<Ef). Furthermore, it is represented that the thermal conductance shows an oscillatory behavior which is significantly affected by the number of atom contacts.

Application of Micro/Nanofabrication Techniques to On‐Chip Molecular Electronics

Small Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2001034
Author(s):  
Zhixing Lu ◽  
Jueting Zheng ◽  
Jie Shi ◽  
Biao‐Feng Zeng ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Electronics ◽  
On Chip

scholarly journals A flexible platform for controlled optical and electrical effects in tailored plasmonic break junctions

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1391-1400
Author(s):  
Florian Laible ◽  
Kai Braun ◽  
Otto Hauler ◽  
Martin Eberle ◽  
Dieter P. Kern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Characterization ◽  
Tunneling Current ◽  
Plasmonic Nanostructures ◽  
Break Junction ◽  
Metal Contacts ◽  
Break Junctions ◽  
Constant Bias ◽  
Confocal Scanning ◽  
Atomic Point Contacts

AbstractMechanically controllable break junctions are one suitable approach to generate atomic point contacts and ultrasmall and controllable gaps between two metal contacts. For constant bias voltages, the tunneling current can be used as a ruler to evaluate the distance between the contacts in the sub-1-nm regime and with sub-Å precision. This ruler can be used to measure the distance between two plasmonic nanostructures located at the designated breaking point of the break junction. In this work, an experimental setup together with suitable nanofabricated break junctions is developed that enables us to perform simultaneous gap-dependent optical and electrical characterization of coupled plasmonic particles, more specifically bowtie antennas in the highly interesting gap range from few nanometers down to zero gap width. The plasmonic break junction experiment is performed in the focus of a confocal microscope. Confocal scanning images and current measurements are simultaneously recorded and exhibit an increased current when the laser is focused in the proximity of the junction. This setup offers a flexible platform for further correlated optoelectronic investigations of coupled antennas or junctions bridged by nanomaterials.

In-situ photoconductivity measurement of imidazole in optical fiber break-junctions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhikai Zhao ◽  
Chenyang Guo ◽  
Lifa Ni ◽  
Xueyan Zhao ◽  
Surong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Transport Properties ◽  
Molecular Junctions ◽  
Break Junction ◽  
Break Junctions ◽  
Fiber Break ◽  
Electron Transport Properties ◽  
Photoconductivity Measurement

We develop a method based on the mechanically controllable break junction technique to investigate the electron transport properties of single molecular junctions upon fiber waveguided light. In our strategy, a...

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