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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 6, 期 6, 页码 353-357出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.66
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- Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) [CHE-0641523]
- New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR)
- NSF [CHE-07-44185]
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) [DE-SC0001085]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [0744185] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Charge transport across metal-molecule interfaces has an important role in organic electronics(1). Typically, chemical link groups such as thiols(2) or amines(3) are used to bind organic molecules to metal electrodes in single-molecule circuits, with these groups controlling both the physical structure and the electronic coupling at the interface. Direct metal-carbon coupling has been shown through C60, benzene and p-stacked benzene(4-7), but ideally the carbon backbone of the molecule should be covalently bonded to the electrode without intervening link groups. Here, we demonstrate a method to create junctions with such contacts. Trimethyl tin (SnMe3)-terminated polymethylene chains are used to form single-molecule junctions with a break-junction technique(2,3). Gold atoms at the electrode displace the SnMe3 linkers, leading to the formation of direct Au-C bonded single-molecule junctions with a conductance that is similar to 100 times larger than analogous alkanes with most other terminations. The conductance of these Au-C bonded alkanes decreases exponentially with molecular length, with a decay constant of 0.97 per methylene, consistent with a non-resonant transport mechanism. Control experiments and ab initio calculations show that high conductances are achieved because a covalent Au-C sigma (sigma) bond is formed. This offers a new method for making reproducible and highly conducting metal-organic contacts.
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