Transport and Spectroscopy
A fundamental challenge in nanoscience is to understand and control electron flow through individual molecules and nanostructures. Several ongoing internal and user projects in the Theory Facility currently address this subject, including quantitative calculations of molecular resonances at metal surfaces and the conductance and IV characteristics of molecular junctions
Contact dependence of the conductance of H2 molecular junctions
Collaborator: Steven G. Louie, Molecular Foundry
Collaborator: James R. Chelikowsky, UT Austin
Renormalization of molecular electronic levels at metal-molecule
interfaces
Foundry users M. S. Hybertsen, G. W. Flynn, Columbia University
Negative differential resistance in hybrid organic-Si molecular
junctions
Foundry Users: Su Ying Quek, E. Kaxiras, Harvard University
Tuning the spin state of a single C60 molecule
Collaborators: Joel E. Moore, Michael F. Crommie, UC Berkeley
Charge transport of alkanethiol self -assembled monolayers on Au(111)
Collaborators: Yabing Qi, Frank Ogletree, Miquel Salmeron, Imaging and Manipulation Facility
Foundry Users: Prof. Jaume Veciana Miró, Dr. Imma Ratera, Institut Catalá de Nanotecnologia
Foundry Users: M. S. Hybertsen and L. Venkataraman, Columbia University
Foundry User: J. R. Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin
Foundry User: J. Bernholc, North Carolina State University
Foundry User: J. Hone, Columbia University
Foundry User: F. Liu, University of Utah
Foundry User: V. Submaranian, UC-Berkeley
Foundry User: Y.-W. Son, Konkuk University, South Korea
Collaborators: A. Majumdar, R. Segalman, UC-Berkeley
