Electrical Conductance of Molecular Junctions by a Robust Statistical Analysis
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- 12 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 6 (10), 2238-2242
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl061581e
Abstract
We propose an objective and robust method to extract the electrical conductance of single molecules connected to metal electrodes from a set of measured conductance data. Our method roots in the physics of tunneling and is tested on octanedithiol using mechanically controllable break junctions. The single molecule conductance values can be deduced without the need for data selection.Keywords
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