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Conductance of individualC60molecules measured with controllable gold electrodes

Author(s) -

T. Böhler,

Achim Edtbauer,

Elke Scheer

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

physical review b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-4489

pISSN - 1098-0121

DOI - 10.1103/physrevb.76.125432

Subject(s) - conductance , molecule , materials science , physics , break junction , electrode , crystallography , analytical chemistry (journal) , atomic physics , condensed matter physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , chromatography

We investigated the conductance of C60 molecules using mechanically controllable break-junction electrodes at 10 K in UHV. The molecules are evaporated in situ. With this method, we obtain clean and low-resistance contacts. From the analysis of conductance histograms and differential-conductance dI /dV traces, we deduce the preferred conductance value of a single C60 molecule between gold electrodes to be close to 0.1 G0. The presence of C60 is evidenced by features in the derivative of the dI /dV at energies close to the molecular vibration energies. The characteristics of the molecules disappear upon cold working of the junctions.

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