Structural Contributions to Charge Transport across Ni-Octanedithiol Multilayer Junctions
- 27 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 6 (11), 2515-2519
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl061867j
Abstract
We report the fabrication and characterization of multilayer thin films incorporating 1,8-octanedithiols and Ni atoms. Low-temperature charge transport measurements exhibit inelastic co-tunneling and resonant tunneling features that correspond energetically to vibrational excitations of the molecular multilayer. Several junctions exhibit changes in conductance features characteristic of charge defect-gating. Transport through our junctions is shown to be dominated by the intrinsic properties of the multilayer.Keywords
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