Published February 20, 2003
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Molecular electronics with a metal-insulator-metal junction based on self-assembled monolayers
Abstract
The mechanisms of electron transport in metal-insulator-metal junctions are incompletely understood. A metal-insulatormetal junction consisting of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) supported on a mercury drop in mechanical contact with a SAM on a planar metal electrode has been developed as a test-bed with which to study electron transport through organic films. This review provides a summary of results intended to characterize this junction including: i) the determination of the electrical breakdown field of organic monolayers, ii) the determination of the tunneling decay constant for aliphatic and aromatic organic oligomers, and iii) the examination of molecular rectifier.
Additional Information
© 2003 American Chemical Society. Publication Date (Print): February 20, 2003. This work was supported by the ONR, DARPA, and the NSF (ECS-9729405). R.E.H. and M.L.C. thank the National Institutes of Health for postdoctoral fellowships and R.H. thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the BASF-fellowship program for financial support.Additional details
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- ECS-9729405
- NSF
- NIH
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- BASF
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