title: Tunneling conductance of amine-linked alkyl chains.
abstract: The tunneling transport theory developed in ref 9 (Phys. Rev. B 2007, 76, 115102) is applied to molecular devices made of alkyl chains linked to gold electrodes via amine groups. Using the analytic expression of the tunneling conductance derived in our previous work, we identify the key physical quantities that characterize the conductance of these devices. By investigating the transport characteristics of three devices, containing four, six, and eight methyl groups, we extract the dependence of the tunneling conductance on the chain's length, which is an exponential decay law in agreement with recent experimental data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10016, USA. prodan@yu.edu
authors.forename: Emil
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prodan
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Car
mesh_terms: D000478:Alkylation; D000588:Amines / Q000737:chemistry*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004579:Electron Transport; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008956:Models, Chemical; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012666:Semiconductors
chemical_list: D000588:Amines