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Benchmarking break-junction techniques: electric and thermoelectric characterization of naphthalenophanes

Hurtado-Gallego, Juan; Hurtado-Gallego, Juan; Poel, Sebastiaan van der; Blaschke, Matthias; Gallego, Almudena; Hsu, Chunwei; López-Nebreda, Rubén; Mayor, Marcel 1; Pauly, Fabian ; Agraït, Nicolás ; Zant, Herre S. J. van der
1 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Break-junction techniques provide the possibility to study electric and thermoelectric properties of
single-molecule junctions in great detail. These techniques rely on the same principle of controllably
breaking metallic contacts in order to create single-molecule junctions, whilst keeping track of the junc-
tion’s conductance. Here, we compare results from mechanically controllable break junction (MCBJ) and
scanning tunneling microscope (STM) methods, while characterizing conductance properties of the same
novel mechanosensitive para- and meta-connected naphtalenophane compounds. In addition, thermo-
power measurements are carried out for both compounds using the STM break junction (STM-BJ) tech-
nique. For the conductance experiments, the same data processing using a clustering analysis is per-
formed. We obtain to a large extent similar results for both methods, although values of conductance and
stretching lengths for the STM-BJ technique are slightly larger in comparison with the MCBJ. STM-BJ
thermopower experiments show similar Seebeck coefficients for both compounds. An increase in the
Seebeck coefficient is revealed, whilst the conductance decreases, after which it saturates at around
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT)
KIT-Bibliothek (BIB)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 05.2024
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2040-3364, 2040-3372
KITopen-ID: 1000171398
HGF-Programm 43.32.01 (POF IV, LK 01) Molecular Materials Basis for Optics & Photonics
Erschienen in Nanoscale
Verlag Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Band 16
Seiten 10751-10759
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 15.04.2024
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Web of Science
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Scopus

Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000171398
Veröffentlicht am 07.06.2024
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR00704B
Scopus
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