Low Temperature Electronic Transport through Macromolecules and Characteristics of Intramolecular Electron Transfer

Details Low Temperature Electronic Transport through Macromolecules and Characteristics of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Low Temperature Electronic Transport through Macromolecules and Characteristics of Intramolecular Electron Transfer

2002-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208302v3

J. Chem. Phys. 123, 114708 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 2 figures, text revised

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2041387

A theory of electronic transport through molecular wires is applied to analyze characteristics of a long-range electron transfer (ET) through molecular bridges in macromolecules with complex donor/acceptor subsystems. Assuming a coherent electron tunneling through the bridge to be the predominant mechanism of ET at low temperatures it is shown that low temperature current-voltage curves can exhibit a step-like structure, which contains information concerning intrinsic features of ET processes such as the effect of donor/acceptor coupling to the bridge and primary pathways of electrons tunneling through the bridge. By contacting the proposed theoretical analysis with such experimental data a variety of valuable characteristics of long-range intramolecular ET can be identified. Analytical and numerical results are presented. Using the Buttiker dephasing model within the scattering matrix formalism we analyze dephasing effects, and we show that these effects could be reduced enough to allow the structure of the electron transmission function to be exposed in the experiments on the electronic transport through macromolecules.

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