Charge transport through image charged stabilized states in a single molecule single electron transistor device

Details Charge transport through image charged stabilized states in a single molecule single electron transistor device Charge transport through image charged stabilized states in a single molecule single electron transistor device

2005-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503517v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

9 pages, 5 figues

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.chemphys.2005.05.035

The present paper gives an elaborate theoretical description of a new molecular charge transport mechanism applying to a single molecule trapped between two macroscopic electrodes in a solid state device. It is shown by a Hubbard type model of the electronic and electrostatic interactions, that the close proximity of metal electrodes may allow electrons to tunnel from the electrode directly into a very localized image charge stabilized states on the molecule. Due to this mechanism, an exceptionally large number of redox states may be visited within an energy scale which would normally not allow the molecular HOMO-LUMO gap to be transversed. With a reasonable set of parameters, a good fit to recent experimental values may be obtained. The theoretical model is furthermore used to search for the physical boundaries of this effect, and it is found that a rather narrow geometrical space is available for the new mechanism to be effective: In the specific case of oligophenylenevinylene molecules recently explored in such devices several atoms in the terminal benzene rings need to be at van der Waal's distance to the electrode in order for the mechanism to be effective. The model predicts, that chemisorption of the terminal benzene rings too gold electrodes will impede the image charge effect very significantly because the molecule is pushed away from the electrode by the covalent thiol-gold bond.

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