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Molecular Transport Through Single Molecules

In: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’03

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  • P. Stampfuß

    (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie)

  • J. Heurich

    (Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik)

  • M. Wegewijs

    (RWTH Aachen, Theoretische Physik A)

  • M. Hettler

    (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie)

  • J. C. Cuevas

    (Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik)

  • H. Schoeller

    (RWTH Aachen, Theoretische Physik A)

  • W. Wenzel

    (RWTH Aachen, Theoretische Physik A)

  • G. Schön

Abstract

Present trends in the miniaturization of electronic devices suggest that ultimately single molecules may be used as electronically active elements in a variety of applications [1, 2]. Recent advances in the manipulation of single molecules now permit to contact an individual molecule between two electrodes (see Fig. 1) and measure its electronic transport properties [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Interesting and novel effects, such as negative differential conductance [9], were observed in some of these experiments, which still, by-and-large, beg theoretical explanation. In addition to generic principles of nanoscale physics, e.g. Coulomb blockade [6, 10, 11], the chemistry and geometry of the molecular junction emerge as the fundamental tunable characteristics of molecular junctions [3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16].

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  • P. Stampfuß & J. Heurich & M. Wegewijs & M. Hettler & J. C. Cuevas & H. Schoeller & W. Wenzel & G. Schön, 2003. "Molecular Transport Through Single Molecules," Springer Books, in: Egon Krause & Willi Jäger & Michael Resch (ed.), High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’03, pages 403-418, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-55876-4_30
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55876-4_30
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