Molecular electronics at metal/semiconductor junctions. Si inversion by sub-nanometer molecular films.
Electronic transport across n-Si-alkyl monolayer/Hg junctions is, at reverse and low forward bias, independent of alkyl chain length from 18 down to 1 or 2 carbons! This and further recent results indicate that electron transport is minority, rather than majority carrier dominated, occurs via generation and recombination, rather than (the earlier assumed) thermionic emission, and, as such, is rather insensitive to interface properties. The (m)ethyl results show that binding organic molecules directly to semiconductors provides semiconductor/metal interface control options, not accessible otherwise.
Yaffe
Omer
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Department of Materials & Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Scheres
Luc
L
Puniredd
Sreenivasa Reddy
SR
Stein
Nir
N
Biller
Ariel
A
Lavan
Rotem Har
RH
Shpaisman
Hagay
H
Zuilhof
Han
H
Haick
Hossam
H
Cahen
David
D
Vilan
Ayelet
A