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@ARTICLE{Li:331,
author = {Li, C. and Mishchenko, A. and Li, Z. and Pobelov, I. and
Wandlowski, Th. and Li, X.Q. and Würthner, F. and Begrets,
A. and Evers, F.},
title = {{E}lectrochemical gate-controlled electron transport of
redox-active single perylene bisimide molecular junctions},
journal = {Journal of physics / Condensed matter},
volume = {20},
issn = {0953-8984},
address = {Bristol},
publisher = {IOP Publ.},
reportid = {PreJuSER-331},
pages = {374122},
year = {2008},
note = {This work was supported by the HGF Project 'Molecular
Switches', the SPP 1243, the Volkswagen Foundation and the
University of Berne and the Research Center Julich. IP
acknowledges support of the German Academic Exchange Agency
for a PhD fellowship. FE, AA and AB acknowledge support from
the SPP 1243 'Center for Functional Nanostructures' situated
at Karlsruhe University.},
abstract = {We report a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiment
in an electrochemical environment which studies a prototype
molecular switch. The target molecules were perylene
tetracarboxylic acid bisimides modified with pyridine
(P-PBI) and methylthiol (T-PBI) linker groups and with bulky
tert-butyl-phenoxy substituents in the bay area. At a fixed
bias voltage, we can control the transport current through a
symmetric molecular wire Au|P-PBI(T-PBI)|Au by variation of
the electrochemical 'gate' potential. The current increases
by up to two orders of magnitude. The conductances of the
P-PBI junctions are typically a factor 3 larger than those
of T-PBI. A theoretical analysis explains this effect as a
consequence of shifting the lowest unoccupied perylene level
(LUMO) in or out of the bias window when tuning the
electrochemical gate potential VG. The difference in on/off
ratios reflects the variation of hybridization of the LUMO
with the electrode states with the anchor groups.
I(T)-E(S(T)) curves of asymmetric molecular junctions formed
between a bare Au STM tip and a T-PBI (P-PBI) modified
Au(111) electrode in an aqueous electrolyte exhibit a
pronounced maximum in the tunneling current at -0.740, which
is close to the formal potential of the surface-confined
molecules. The experimental data were explained by a
sequential two-step electron transfer process.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IBN-3 / CNI / JARA-FIT},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB801 / I:(DE-Juel1)VDB381 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
pnm = {Grundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK412},
shelfmark = {Physics, Condensed Matter},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:21694429},
UT = {WOS:000258734700024},
doi = {10.1088/0953-8984/20/37/374122},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/331},
}