Direct comparison of the electronic coupling efficiency of sulfur and selenium alligator clips for molecules adsorbed onto gold electrodes

Lionel Patrone 1 Serge Palacin 2 Jean-Philippe Bourgoin 1
1 LEM - Laboratoire d'Electronique Moléculaire
2 LCSI - Laboratoire de Chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces
Abstract : Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments have been performed to compare the electronic coupling provided by S and by Se used as alligator clips for bisthiol- and biselenol-terthiophene molecules adsorbed onto gold. The molecules were inserted in a dodecanethiol (DT) self-assembled monolayer. Their apparent height above the dodecanethiol matrix was used as a measure of the electronic coupling strength corresponding to S and Se, respectively. We show that the insertion behaviors of the two molecules are qualitatively the same, and that Se provides systematically a better coupling link than S, whatever the tunneling conditions
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Lionel Patrone, Serge Palacin, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin. Direct comparison of the electronic coupling efficiency of sulfur and selenium alligator clips for molecules adsorbed onto gold electrodes. Applied Surface Science, Elsevier, 2003, 121-213, pp.446-451. ⟨10.1016/S0169-4332(03)00130-2⟩. ⟨cea-01056949⟩

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