Compensation of Coulomb blocking and energy transfer in the current voltage characteristic of molecular conduction junctions

Guangqi Li; Manmohan S. Shishodia; Boris D. Fainberg; Boris Apter; Michal Oren; Abraham Nitzan; Mark A. Ratner

doi:10.1021/nl204130d

Compensation of Coulomb blocking and energy transfer in the current voltage characteristic of molecular conduction junctions

Guangqi Li, Manmohan S. Shishodia, Boris D. Fainberg, Boris Apter, Michal Oren, Abraham Nitzan, Mark A. Ratner

Northwestern University

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Abstract

We have studied the influence of both exciton effects and Coulomb repulsion on current in molecular nanojunctions. We show that dipolar energy-transfer interactions between the sites in the wire can at high voltage compensate Coulomb blocking for particular relationships between their values. Tuning this relationship may be achieved by using the effect of plasmonic nanostructure on dipolar energy-transfer interactions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2228-2232
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl204130d
Publication status	Published - May 9 2012

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Keywords

Coulomb blocking
Molecular conduction nanojunctions
energy transfer
exciton effects
plasmonic effects

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Bioengineering
Chemistry(all)
Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

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Li, G., Shishodia, M. S., Fainberg, B. D., Apter, B., Oren, M., Nitzan, A., & Ratner, M. A. (2012). Compensation of Coulomb blocking and energy transfer in the current voltage characteristic of molecular conduction junctions. Nano letters, 12(5), 2228-2232. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl204130d

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