Invited talk
Transport in molecular junctions beyond the coherent picture
1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISMN, Via Salaria Km 29.6, 00017 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
2Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
3BCCMS, Bremen Centre of Computational Materials Sciance, Univ. Bremen, Germany
4Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
5Technische Universität München, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München, Germany
Molecular electronics has opened many field of research and it is still a rather lively subject of investigations across Europe. In this talk coherent and incoherent transport in molecular junctions based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism and the density-functional tight-binding method will be discussed [1]. Transport in controlled STM junctions can lead to unexpected transport behaviors due to conformational changes of the molecule induced by the tip. The interplay between interference and electron-vibron scattering in cross-conjugated molecules will be presented [2-4].
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[2] J. Lykkebo, A. Gagliardi, A. Pecchia, and G. C. Solomon, ACS Nano 7, 9183-9194 (2013).
[3] J. Lykkebo, A. Gagliardi, A. Pecchia, and G. C. Solomon, J. Chem. Phys. 141, 124119 (2014).
[4] J. Lykkebo, G. Romano, A. Gagliardi, A. Pecchia, and G. C. Solomon, J. Chem. Phys. 144 (2015).