Current versus temperature-induced switching in a single-molecule tunnel junction : 1,5 cyclooctadiene on Si(001)
- The biconformational switching of single cyclooctadiene molecules chemisorbed on a Si(001) surface was explored by quantum chemical and quantum dynamical calculations and low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. The calculations rationalize the experimentally observed switching driven by inelastic electron tunneling (IET) at 5 K. At higher temperatures, they predict a controllable crossover behavior between IET-driven and thermally activated switching, which is fully confirmed by experiment.
| Author details: | Christophe Nacci, Stefan Foelsch, Karl Zenichowski, Jadranka Dokic, Tillmann KlamrothORCiDGND, Peter SaalfrankORCiDGND |
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| URL: | http://pubs.acs.org/journal/nalefd |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1021/Nl901419g |
| ISSN: | 1530-6984 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2009 |
| Publication year: | 2009 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
| Source: | Nano letters. - ISSN 1530-6984. - 9 (2009), 8, S. 2996 - 3000 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Chemie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
