Incoherent Electron−Phonon Scattering in Octanethiols
Nano Letters2004Vol. 4(11), pp. 2109–2114
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Alessandro Pecchia, Aldo Di Carlo, Alessio Gagliardi, Simone Sanna, Thomas Frauenheim, Rafael Gutiérrez
Abstract
We investigate the influence of molecular vibrations on the tunneling of electrons through an octane−thiolate sandwiched between two gold contacts. The coherent and incoherent tunneling currents are computed using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism. Both the system Hamiltonian and the electron−phonon interaction are obtained from first-principles DFT calculations, including a microscopic treatment of the gold contacts. This method allows to study explicitly the influence of each individual vibrational mode and show a detailed analysis of the power dissipated in the molecular wire.
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