title: Electrical conductance of molecular junctions by a robust statistical analysis.
abstract: We propose an objective and robust method to extract the electrical conductance of single molecules connected to metal electrodes from a set of measured conductance data. Our method roots in the physics of tunneling and is tested on octanedithiol using mechanically controllable break junctions. The single molecule conductance values can be deduced without the need for data selection.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physik, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. teresa.gonzalez@unibas.ch
authors.forename: M Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: Songmei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: Sense J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: van der Molen
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schönenberger
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calame
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D008832:Microchemistry / Q000379:methods*; D008839:Microelectrodes; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015336:Molecular Probe Techniques