Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2006-10-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
11 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Recent I/V curve measurements suggest that C60 molecules deposited in gold nanojunctions change their adsorption configuration when a finite voltage in a 2-terminal setting is applied. This is of interest for molecular electronics because a robust molecular transistor could be based on such junctions if the mechanism of the process is understood. We present density functional theory based plane wave calculations, where we studied the energetics of the molecule's adsorption under the influence of an external field. Particular emphasis was placed on investigating a possible lightning rod effect which might explain the switching between configurations found in the experiments. We also analyze our results for the adsorption energetics in terms of an electrostatic expression for the total energy, where the dependence of the polarizability of thejunction on the position of the C60 molecule was identified as a crucialproperty for the field induced change of adsorption site.
Bjornholm Thomas
Kubatkin Sergey
Stadler Rolf
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