Correlating Electron Transport and Molecular Structure in Organic Thin Films

R Erik Holmlin; Rustem F Ismagilov; Rainer Haag; Vladimiro Mujica; Mark A Ratner; Maria Anita Rampi; George M Whitesides

doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20010618)40:12<2316::AID-ANIE2316>3.0.CO;2-#

Correlating Electron Transport and Molecular Structure in Organic Thin Films

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2001 Jun 18;40(12):2316-2320. doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010618)40:12<2316::AID-ANIE2316>3.0.CO;2-#.

Authors

R Erik Holmlin¹, Rustem F Ismagilov¹, Rainer Haag¹, Vladimiro Mujica², Mark A Ratner², Maria Anita Rampi³, George M Whitesides¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 (USA) Fax: (+1) 617-495-9857.
² Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 (USA).
³ Dipartimento di Chimica, Centro di Fotochimica CNR, Universita' di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara (Italy) Fax: (+39) 0532240709.

PMID: 29711833
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010618)40:12<2316::AID-ANIE2316>3.0.CO;2-#

Abstract

A convenient experimental system is described, with which electron transport through structurally well-defined, 2-5 nm-thick, organic films can be examined. Two types of junction J have been studied in which self-assembled monolayers (SAMs, for example, SAM(1) formed on Ag from aliphatic and aromatic thiols, and SAM(2), formed on Hg from hexadecanethiol) are in contact through either van der Waals interactions or through covalent, hydrogen, or ionic bonds.

Keywords: electron transfer; monolayers; self assembly; thin films.