Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-09-22
Phys. Rev. B 78, 035315 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
7 pages, 9 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035315
We study theoretically the length dependence of both conductance and thermopower in metal-molecule-metal junctions made up of dithiolated oligophenylenes contacted to gold electrodes. We find that while the conductance decays exponentially with increasing molecular length, the thermopower increases linearly as suggested by recent experiments. We also analyze how these transport properties can be tuned with methyl side groups. Our results can be explained by considering the level shifts due to their electron-donating character as well as the tilt-angle dependence of conductance and thermopower. Qualitative features of the substituent effects in our density-functional calculations are explained using a tight-binding model. In addition, we observe symmetry-related even-odd transmission channel degeneracies as a function of molecular length.
Cuevas Juan Carlos
Pauly Fabian
Viljas Janne K.
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