{
  "id": "0803.0710",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2008-03-05T18:20:40.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-03-07T23:14:55.000Z",
  "title": "Tunneling conductance of amine linked alkyl chains",
  "authors": [
    "Emil Prodan",
    "Roberto Car"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 6 figures; two references added in v2",
  "journal": "Nano Lett 8, 1771 (2008)",
  "doi": "10.1021/nl8012133",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "The tunneling transport theory developed in Phys. Rev. B {\\bf 76}, 115102 (2007) is applied to molecular devices made of alkyl chains linked to gold electrodes via amine groups. Using the analytic expression of the tunneling conductance derived in our previous work, we identify the key physical quantities that characterize the conductance of these devices. By investigating the transport characteristics of three devices, containing 4, 6, and 8 methyl groups, we extract the dependence of the tunneling conductance on the chain's length, which is an exponential decay law in close agreement with recent experimental data.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2008-03-07T23:14:55.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "amine linked alkyl chains",
      "tunneling conductance",
      "exponential decay law",
      "close agreement",
      "transport theory"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Nano Letters",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "Jun",
      "volume": 8,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": 1771
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008NanoL...8.1771P"
    }
  }
}