Predicting transport regime and local electrostatic environment from Coulomb blockade diamond sizes

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Electron transport through a molecule is often described in one of the two regimes: the coherent tunnelling regime or the Coulomb blockade regime. The twilight zone of the two regimes still possesses many unsolved questions. A theoretical analysis of the oligophenylenevinylene OPV3 experiments by Bjørnholm and co-workers is performed. The experiments showed how two OPV3 derivatives performed very differently despite the strong similarity of the molecular structure, hence the experimental data showed two different transport mechanisms. The different transport mechanisms of the two OPV3 derivatives are explained from quantum mechanical calculations of the molecular redox energies and from the experimentally accessible window size.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104306
JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
Volume146
Issue number10
Number of pages6
ISSN0021-9606
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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