Disorder and dephasing effects on electron transport through conjugated molecular wires in molecular junctions
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Beitragende
Abstract
Understanding electron transport processes in molecular wires connected between contacts is a central focus in the field of molecular electronics. Especially, the dephasing effect causing tunneling-to-hopping transition has great importance from both applicational and fundamental points of view. We analyzed coherent and incoherent electron transmission through conjugated molecular wires by means of density-functional tight-binding theory within the D'Amato-Pastawski model. Our approach can study explicitly the structure/transport relationship in molecular junctions in a dephasing environmental condition using only single dephasing parameter. We investigated the length dependence and the influence of thermal fluctuations on transport and reproduced the well-known tunneling-to-hopping transition. This approach will be a powerful tool for the interpretation of recent conductance measurements of molecular wires.
Details
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Aufsatznummer | 155327 |
| Fachzeitschrift | Physical Review: B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
| Jahrgang | 85 |
| Ausgabenummer | 15 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 1 Apr. 2012 |
| Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Externe IDs
| ArXiv | http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0152v1 |
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| Scopus | 84860494894 |
Schlagworte
Schlagwörter
- molecular junctions, electron transport