Can Ballistic Electrons Probe the Electronic Spectra of Individual Buried Molecules?

Details Can Ballistic Electrons Probe the Electronic Spectra of Individual Buried Molecules? Can Ballistic Electrons Probe the Electronic Spectra of Individual Buried Molecules?

2006-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611540v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages plus 4 figures

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A theoretical study is presented of the ballistic electron emission spectra (BEES) of individual insulating and conducting organic molecules chemisorbed on a silicon substrate and buried under a thin gold film. It is predicted that ballistic electrons injected into the gold film from a scanning tunneling microscope tip should be transmitted so weakly to the silicon substrate by alkane molecules of moderate length (decane, hexane) and their thiolates that individual buried molecules of this type will be difficult to detect in BEES experiments. However, resonant transmission by molecules containing unsaturated C-C bonds or aromatic rings is predicted to be strong enough for BEES spectra of individual buried molecules of these types types to be measured. Calculated BEES spectra of molecules of both types are presented and the effects of some simple interstitial and substitutional gold defects that may occur in molecular films are also briefly discussed.

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