Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Abraham Nitzan

Abstract

Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces has been a subject of intensive research due to recent interest in electron-transfer phenomena underlying the operation of the scanning-tunneling microscope on one hand, and in the transmission properties of molecular bridges between conducting leads on the other. In these processes, the traditional molecular view of electron transfer between donor and acceptor species gives rise to a novel view of the molecule as a current-carrying conductor, and observables such as electron-transfer rates and yields are replaced by the conductivities, or more generally by current-voltage relationships, in molecular junctions. Such investigations of electrical junctions, in which single molecules or small molecular assemblies operate as conductors, constitute a major part of the active field of molecular electronics. In this article I review the current knowledge and understanding of this field, with particular emphasis on theoretical issues. Different approaches to computing the conduction properties of molecules and molecular assemblies are reviewed, and the relationships between them are discussed. Following a detailed discussion of static-junctions models, a review of our cur...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
light scattering
light-scattering
electron scattering
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