• 文献标题:   Robust graphene-based molecular devices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   EL ABBASSI M, SANGTARASH S, LIU XS, PERRIN ML, BRAUN O, LAMBERT C, VAN DER ZANT HSJ, YITZCHAIK S, DECURTINS S, LIU SX, SADEGHI H, CALAME M
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1748-3387 EI 1748-3395
  • 通讯作者地址:   Empa
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41565-019-0533-8
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

One of the main challenges to upscale the fabrication of molecular devices is to achieve a mechanically stable device with reproducible and controllable electronic features that operates at room temperature(1,2). This is crucial because structural and electronic fluctuations can lead to significant changes in the transport characteristics at the electrode-molecule interface(3,4). In this study, we report on the realization of a mechanically and electronically robust graphene-based molecular junction. Robustness was achieved by separating the requirements for mechanical and electronic stability at the molecular level. Mechanical stability was obtained by anchoring molecules directly to the substrate, rather than to graphene electrodes, using a silanization reaction. Electronic stability was achieved by adjusting the pi-pi orbitals overlap of the conjugated head groups between neighbouring molecules. The molecular devices exhibited stable current-voltage (I-V) characteristics up to bias voltages of 2.0 V with reproducible transport features in the temperature range from 20 to 300 K.