Nature Communications (May 2016)

Electrostatic control over temperature-dependent tunnelling across a single-molecule junction

  • Alvar R. Garrigues,
  • Lejia Wang,
  • Enrique del Barco,
  • Christian A. Nijhuis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11595
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The effect of temperature on charge transport mechanisms in molecular tunnel junctions is not fully understood. Here, charge transport studies of a redox-active molecule unveil multiple mechanistic regimes which may be explained by thermal broadening of the Fermi distributions of electrons in the leads.