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E Abad1, J I Martínez, J Ortega
1Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. enrique.abad@uam.es
Abstract:
We analyze the nanogap organic molecular junction formed by a C(60) molecule in between an Au-tip and an Au(111)-surface. In our approach, we first calculate the atomic geometry of the tip/C(60)/Au(111) nanocontact as a function of the tip-surface distance and molecule adsorption site using a density functional theory-local density approximation (DFT-LDA) technique. The electronic structure and metal/organic barrier height formation (for a single molecule) are analyzed using the induced density of interface states model for metal/organic interfaces. From this analysis we calculate the charging energy U(eff) of the C(60) molecule at the nanocontact and determine self-consistently the transport energy gap and the organic molecule density of states. Our results are shown to be in good agreement with the experimental evidence.
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