Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2006

Publication Title

Nano Letters

Volume

6

Issue

7

Publisher Name

American Physical Society

Abstract

We report electronic transport measurements of single-molecule transistor devices incorporating bipyridyl-dinitro oligophenylene-ethynylene dithiol (BPDN-DT), a molecule known to exhibit conductance switching in other measurement configurations. We observe hysteretic conductance switching in 8% of devices with measurable currents, and find that dependence of the switching properties on gate voltage is rare when compared to other single-molecule transistor devices. This suggests that polaron formation is unlikely to be responsible for switching in these devices. We discuss this and alternative switching mechanisms.

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Author Posting. © 2006 American Chemical Society. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the American Chemical Society for personal use, not for redistribution.The definitive version was published in Nano Letters, Volume 6, Issue 7, 2006. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl061117+

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