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  • 1.
    Jiang, Jun
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Kula, Mathias
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Lu, W.
    National Lab for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    First-principles simulations of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of molecular electronic devices2005In: Nano letters (Print), ISSN 1530-6984, E-ISSN 1530-6992, Vol. 5, no 8, p. 1551-1555Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) is a powerful experimental tool for studying the molecular and metal contact geometries in molecular electronic devices. A first-principles computational method based on the hybrid density functional theory is developed to simulate the IETS of realistic molecular electronic devices. The calculated spectra of a real device with an octanedithiolate embedded between two gold contacts are in excellent agreement with recent experimental results. Strong temperature dependence of the experimental IETS spectra is also reproduced. It is shown that the IETS is extremely sensitive to the intramolecular conformation and the molecule-metal contact geometry changes. With the help of theoretical calculations, it has finally become possible to fully understand and assign the complicated experimental IETS and, more importantly, provide the structural information of the molecular electronic devices.

  • 2.
    Jiang, Jun
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Kula, Mathias
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    A generalized quantum chemical approach for elastic and inelastic electron transports in molecular electronics devices2006In: Journal of Chemical Physics, ISSN 0021-9606, E-ISSN 1089-7690, Vol. 124, no 3, p. 034708-1-034708-10Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    A generalized quantum chemical approach for electron transport in molecular devices is developed. It allows one to treat devices where the metal electrodes and the molecule are either chemically or physically bonded on equal footing. An extension to include the vibration motions of the molecule has also been implemented which has produced the inelastic electron-tunneling spectroscopy of molecular electronics devices with unprecedented accuracy. Important information about the structure of the molecule and of metal-molecule contacts that are not accessible in the experiment are revealed. The calculated current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of different molecular devices, including benzene-1,4-dithiolate, octanemonothiolate [H(CH2)(8)S], and octanedithiolate [S(CH2)(8)S] bonded to gold electrodes, are in very good agreement with experimental measurements.

  • 3.
    Jiang, Jun
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry and Biology.
    Kula, Mathias
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry and Biology.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Molecular modeling of inelastic electron transport in molecular junctions2008In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, ISSN 0953-8984, E-ISSN 1361-648X, Vol. 20, no 37Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    A quantum chemical approach for the modeling of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of molecular junctions based on scattering theory is presented. Within a harmonic approximation, the proposed method allows us to calculate the electron-vibration coupling strength analytically, which makes it applicable to many different systems. The calculated inelastic electron transport spectra are often in very good agreement with their experimental counterparts, allowing the revelation of detailed information about molecular conformations inside the junction, molecule-metal contact structures, and intermolecular interaction that is largely inaccessible experimentally.

  • 4.
    Kula, Mathias
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO).
    Elastic and Inelastic Electron Tunneling in Molecular Devices2006Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other scientific)
    Abstract [en]

    A theoretical framework for calculating electron transport through molecular junctions is presented. It is based on scattering theory using a Green's function formalism. The model can take both elastic and inelastic scattering into account and treats chemical and physical bonds on equal footing. It is shown that it is quite reliable with respect to the choice of functional and basis set. Applications concerning both elastic and inelastic transport are presented, though the emphasis is on the inelastic transport properties. The elastic scattering application part is divided in two part. The first part demonstrates how the current magnitude is strongly related to the junction width, which provides an explanation why experimentalists get two orders of magnitude differences when performing measurements on the same type of system. The second part is devoted to a study of how hydrogenbonding affects the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. It is shown that for a conjugated molecule with functional groups, the effects can be quite dramatic. This shows the importance of taking possible intermolecular interactions into account when evaluating and comparing experimental data. The inelastic scattering part is devoted to get accurate predictions of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) experiments. The emphasis has been on elucidating the importance of various bonding conditions for the IETS. It is shown that the IETS is very sensitive to the shape of the electrodes and it can also be used to discriminate between different intramolecular conformations. Temperature dependence is nicely reproduced. The junction width is shown to be of importance and comparisons between experiment as well as other theoretical predictions are made.

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  • 5.
    Kula, Mathias
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Understanding Electron Transport Properties of Molecular Electronic Devices2007Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other scientific)
    Abstract [en]

    his thesis has been devoted to the study of underlying mechanisms for electron transport in molecular electronic devices. Not only has focus been on describing the elastic and inelastic electron transport processes with a Green's function based scattering theory approach, but also on how to construct computational models that are relevant to experimental systems. The thesis is essentially divided into two parts. While the rst part covers basic assumptions and the elastic transport properties, the second part covers the inelastic transport properties and its applications.

    It is discussed how di erent experimental approaches may give rise to di erent junction widths and thereby di erences in coupling strength between the bridging molecules and the contacts. This di erence in coupling strength is then directly related to the magnitude of the current that passes through the molecule and may thus explain observed di erences between di erent experiments. Another focus is the role of intermolecular interactions on the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, where water molecules interacting with functional groups in a set of conjugated molecules are considered. This is interesting from several aspects; many experiments are performed under ambient conditions, which means that water molecules will be present and may interfere with the experiment. Another point is that many measurement are done on self-assembled monolayers, which raises the question of how such a measurement relates to that of a single molecule. By looking at the perturbations caused by the water molecules, one may get an understanding of what impact a neighboring molecule may have. The theoretical predictions show that intermolecular e ects may play a crucial role and is related to the functional groups, which has to be taken into consideration when looking at experimental data.

    In the second part, the inelastic contribution to the total current is shown to be quite small and its real importance lies in probing the device geometry. Several molecules are studied for which experimental data is available for comparison. It is demonstrated that the IETS is very sensitive to the molecular conformation, contact geometry and junction width. It is also found that some of the spectral features that appear in experiment cannot be attributed to the molecular device, but to the background contributions, which shows how theory may be used to complement experiment. This part concludes with a study of the temperature dependence of the inelastic transport. This is very important not only from a theoretical point of view, but also for the experiments since it gives experimentalists a sense of which temperature ranges they can operate for measuring IETS.

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  • 6.
    Kula, Mathias
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry and Biology.
    Cappelli, Chiara
    Coriani, Sonia
    Rizzo, Antonio
    Ab initio study of the magneto-optical rotation of diastereoisomers2008In: ChemPhysChem, ISSN 1439-4235, E-ISSN 1439-7641, Vol. 9, no 3, p. 462-469Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Experimental studies on the natural optical activity and Faraday rotation of the three different stereoisomers of tartaric acid were reported recently by Ruchon et al. [Chem. Phys., Lett. 2005, 412, 411]. The authors noted that the Faraday rotation of the meso (R,S) system differed from those of the (S,S) and (R,R) enantiomers, and derived a simple dipole-dipole interaction model to describe what they claim to be a "new property". We present the results of both density functional theory (DFT) and coupled cluster calculations for a structurally elementary model system composed of two chiral carbon atoms presenting three diastereoisomers (C2H2Cl2F2), as well as a detailed DFT study of the natural and magnetic-field-induced optical rotation of tartaric acid. The effects of electron correlation, basis set, and conformational flexibility are analyzed. It is found that the specific Faraday rotations of the chiral (R,R) and mesa forms of tartaric acid (for lambda = 632.8 nm) differ by about 3%, a value which is quite close In magnitude-but of opposite sign-to that obtained with the simplified model proposed by Ruchon and co-workers.

  • 7.
    Kula, Mathias
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Jiang, Jun
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Lu, Wei
    National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Effects of Hydrogen Bonding on Current−Voltage Characteristics of Molecular Junctions2006In: Journal of Chemical Physics, ISSN 0021-9606, E-ISSN 1089-7690, Vol. 125, no 19, p. 194703-1-194703-7Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We present a first-principles study of hydrogen bonding effect on current-voltage characteristics of molecular junctions. Three model charge-transfer molecules, 2'-amino-4,4'-di(ethynylphenyl)-1-benzenethiolate (DEPBT-D), 4,4'-di(ethynylphenyl)-2'-nitro-1-benzenethiolate (DEPBT-A), and 2'-amino-4,4'-di(ethynylphenyl)-5'-nitro-1-benzenethiolate (DEPBT-DA), have been examined and compared with the corresponding hydrogen bonded complexes formed with different water molecules. Large differences in current-voltage characteristics are observed for DEPBT-D and DEPBT-A molecules with or without hydrogen bonded waters, while relatively small differences are found for DEPBT-DA. It is predicted that the presence of water clusters can drastically reduce the conductivities of the charge-transfer molecules. The underlying microscopic mechanism has been discussed.

  • 8.
    Kula, Mathias
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry and Biology.
    Jiang, Jun
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry and Biology.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    A molecular view on electron transport in molecular electronic devices2008In: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, ISSN 1546-1955, Vol. 5, no 4, p. 401-421Article, review/survey (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    A review of a typical Green's function based scattering theory model for molecular electronics is presented. It focuses on the description of central part of the molecular devices, namely the molecule-metal junction. It allows to combine with various advanced density functional theory approaches to model elastic and inelastic electron transport properties of a variety of single molecular devices. It can treat the molecular junctions with either chemically or physically bonded molecular interfaces on equal footing and is fairly insensitive to the choice of functionals and basis sets. The method can capture the fundamental physics behind the electron transport properties and largely reproduce many experimental results for nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy, and single molecule field-effect transistors.

  • 9.
    Kula, Mathias
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Jiang, Jun
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Probing molecule-metal bonding in molecular junctions by inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy2006In: Nano letters (Print), ISSN 1530-6984, E-ISSN 1530-6992, Vol. 6, no 8, p. 1693-1698Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We present first-principles calculations for the inelastic electron tunneling spectra ( IETS) of three molecules, 1-undecane thiol (C11), alpha, omega-bis(thioacetyl)oligophenylenethynylene (OPE), and alpha,omega-bis(thioacetyl) oligophenylenevinylene (OPV), sandwiched between two gold electrodes. We have demonstrated that IETS is very sensitive to the bonding between the molecule and electrodes. In comparison with experiment of Kushmerick et al. (Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 639), it has been concluded that the C11 forms a strong chemical bond, while the bonding of the OPE and OPV systems are slightly weaker. All experimental spectral features have been correctly assigned.

  • 10.
    Kula, Mathias
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Jiang, Jun
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Temperature dependence of inelastic electron transport in molecular junctionsManuscript (Other academic)
  • 11.
    Kula, Mathias
    et al.
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Luo, Yi
    KTH, School of Biotechnology (BIO), Theoretical Chemistry.
    Effects of intermolecular interaction on inelastic electron tunneling spectra2008In: Journal of Chemical Physics, ISSN 0021-9606, E-ISSN 1089-7690, Vol. 128, no 6, p. 064705-Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    We have examined the effects of intermolecular interactions on the inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) of model systems: a pair of benzenethiol or a pair of benzenedithiol sandwiched between gold electrodes. The dependence of the IETS on the mutual position of and distance between the paired molecules has been predicted and discussed in detailed. It is shown that, although in most cases, there are clear spectral fingerprints present which allow identification of the actual structures of the molecules inside the junction. Caution must be exercised since some characteristic lines can disappear at certain symmetries. The importance of theoretical simulation is emphasized.

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