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Bonding and Electronic Transport Properties of Fullerene and Fullerene Derivatives in Break‐Junction Geometries
Author(s) -
Lörtscher Emanuel,
Geskin Victor,
Gotsmann Bernd,
Fock Jeppe,
Sørensen Jakob Kryger,
Bjørnholm Thomas,
Cornil Jérôme,
van der Zant Herre S. J.,
Riel Heike
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201201688
Subject(s) - fullerene , materials science , molecular electronics , molecule , chemical physics , noble metal , nanotechnology , metal , computational chemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry , metallurgy
Fullerenes are considered anchoring groups for molecular electronics due to a large contact area and their affinity for noble metals. The conductances of fullerene‐terminated molecules, however, are found to be even lower than for thiol termination. The effects of weak molecule–metal coupling and symmetry breaking are studied by transport measurements of C 60 and functionalized C 60 . The results demonstrate highy efficient contacts between Au and C 60 , despite of deposition from solution.