Long-lived charged states of single porphyrin-tape junctions under ambient conditions
| Autor: | Richard J. Nichols, Juan Hurtado-Gallego, Harry L. Anderson, Nicolás Agraït, Bart Limburg, Laura Rincón-García, Simon J. Higgins, Georg Kastlunger, Robert Stadler, Gabino Rubio Bollinger, Edmund Leary, M. Teresa González |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Materials science
Molecular electronics Conductance 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Porphyrin 0104 chemical sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Hysteresis chemistry Chemical physics Electrode Molecule General Materials Science Molecular memory 0210 nano-technology Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope |
| Zdroj: | Repositorio Institucional del Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia instname Nanoscale Horizons |
| Popis: | The ability to control the charge state of individual molecules wired in two-terminal single-molecule junctions is a key challenge in molecular electronics, particularly in relation to the development of molecular memory and other computational componentry. Here we demonstrate that single porphyrin molecular junctions can be reversibly charged and discharged at elevated biases under ambient conditions due to the presence of a localised molecular eigenstate close to the Fermi edge of the electrodes. In particular, we can observe long-lived charge-states with lifetimes upwards of 1–10 seconds after returning to low bias and large changes in conductance, in excess of 100-fold at low bias. Our theoretical analysis finds charge-state lifetimes within the same time range as the experiments. The ambient operation demonstrates that special conditions such as low temperatures or ultra-high vacuum are not essential to observe hysteresis and stable charged molecular junctions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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