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Published on: November 3, 2008
Evaluation of the Kinetic Property of Single-Molecule Junctions by Tunneling Current Measurements
Takanori Harashima1, Yusuke Hasegawa1, Manabu Kiguchi1
1Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Abstract:
We investigated the formation and breaking of single-molecule junctions of two kinds of dithiol molecules by time-resolved tunneling current measurements in a metal nanogap. The resulting current trajectory was statistically analyzed to determine the single-molecule conductance and, more importantly, to reveal the kinetic property of the single-molecular junction. These results suggested that combining a measurement of the single-molecule conductance and statistical analysis is a promising method to uncover the kinetic properties of the single-molecule junction.
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