The study of charge transport through organic thin films: mechanism, tools and applications.
In this paper, we discuss the current state of organic and molecular-scale electronics, some experimental methods used to characterize charge transport through molecular junctions and some theoretical models (superexchange and barrier tunnelling models) used to explain experimental results. Junctions incorporating self-assembled monolayers of organic molecules - and, in particular, junctions with mercury-drop electrodes - are described in detail, as are the issues of irreproducibility associated with such junctions (due, in part, to defects at the metal-molecule interface).
Weiss
Emily A
EA
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Kriebel
Jennah K
JK
Rampi
Maria-Anita
MA
Whitesides
George M
GM