Electronic properties of individual diarylethene molecules studied using scanning tunneling spectroscopy

A. Arramel; T. C. Pijper; T. Kudernac; N. Katsonis; M. van der Maas; B. L. Feringa; B. J.  van Wees

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Electronic properties of individual diarylethene molecules studied using scanning tunneling spectroscopy

A. Arramel, T. C. Pijper, T. Kudernac, N. Katsonis, M. van der Maas, B. L. Feringa, B. J. van Wees

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Abstract

The investigation of the electronic conduction through monosulfurdiarylethene (1S-DE) immobilized in an insulating dodecanethiol matrix on a gold surface was addressed. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy allows to probe spatially the frontier molecular orbitals of 1S-DE at 77K. We locally extracted the electronic highest occupied molecular orbital-lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gap of 1S-DE with the value of 1.56 eV. This attempt reveals the importance of scanning tunneling spectroscopy as a tool to measure the charge transport properties of diarylethene towards the realization of a switching-based molecular device.

Original language	English
Article number	083716
Pages (from-to)	083716-1-083716-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	111
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4706568
Publication status	Published - 15-Apr-2012

Keywords

SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS
ORGANIC-MOLECULES
CONDUCTANCE
MICROSCOPY
INTERFACE
TRANSPORT
JUNCTION
SURFACE
METALS
WIRES

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