STM Characterization of Phenylene-Ethynylene Oligomers on Au(111) and their Integration into Carbon Nanotube Nanogaps

• Main Author: Thiele, Cornelius (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2014
• Series: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics / Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Physikalisches Institut
• Subjects: Physics; Nanoelektronik Molekulardrähte Rastertunnelmikroskopie Kohlenstoffnanoröhren Nanogap-ElektrodenNanoelectronics Molecular wires Scanning tunneling microscopy Carbon nanotubes Nanogap electrodes
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Molecular electronics requires both profound knowledge of a molecule's structure and functionality on a surface and controlled positioning between electrodes with nanometer-sized gaps. In the first part of this work, a detailed scanning tunneling microscope study of two variants of oligo(phenyl...