Controlling single-molecule negative differential resistance in a double-barrier tunnel junction.
We observed the transition from negative differential resistance (NDR) to the absence of NDR in the differential conductance (dI/dV) spectra of single copper-phthalocyanine (CuPc) molecules adsorbed on one, two, and three atomic layers of NaBr grown on a NiAl(110) substrate. Through numerical simulation, this transition is attributed to two phenomena in the double-barrier tunnel junction: (i) the opposite bias dependence of the vacuum and NaBr barrier heights, and (ii) the changing barrier widths for CuPc molecules adsorbed on different layers of NaBr.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA.
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