• 文献标题:   Sequential Electron Transport and Vibrational Excitations in an Organic Molecule Coupled to Few-Layer Graphene Electrodes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BURZURI E, ISLAND JO, DIAZTORRES R, FURSINA A, GONZALEZCAMPO A, ROUBEAU O, TEAT SJ, ALIAGAALCALDE N, RUIZ E, VAN DER ZANT HSJ
  • 作者关键词:   curcuminoid, molecular electronic, vibration, graphene electrode
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Delft Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   24
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.5b07382
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Graphene electrodes are promising candidates to improve reproducibility and stability in molecular electronics through new electrode molecule anchoring strategies. Here we report sequential electron transport in few-layer graphene transistors containing individual curcuminoid-based molecules anchored to the electrodes via pi-pi orbital bonding. We show the coexistence of inelastic co-tunneling excitations with single-electron transport physics due to an intermediate molecule electrode coupling; we argue that an intermediate electron-phonon coupling is the origin of these vibrational-assisted excitations. These experimental observations are complemented with density functional theory calculations to model electron transport and the interaction between electrons and vibrational modes of the curcuminoid molecule. We find that the calculated vibrational modes of the molecule are in agreement with the experimentally observed excitations.