STM and XPS investigation of molecular electronics bonded to substrates

Moses W. Haimbodi; Adam M. Rawlett; Conan Wieland; Korhan Demirkan; Anshuman Anshuman; Robert L. Opila

doi:10.1117/12.571524

19 January 2005 STM and XPS investigation of molecular electronics bonded to substrates

Moses W. Haimbodi, Adam M. Rawlett, Conan Wieland, Korhan Demirkan, Anshuman Anshuman, Robert L. Opila

Proceedings Volume 5592, Nanofabrication: Technologies, Devices, and Applications; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571524
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

The interest in organic based molecular electronics has spurred new attempts to control electronic properties of single molecules. We are approaching this goal by looking at two systems: conductivity of thiol-based self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and phenylene ethynylene oligomers deposited on Au surfaces, and viability of covalently tethering molecules to Si substrates. In both cases, the molecules have extended conjugated π-systems. In this report, we will present results of scanning tunneling microscope investigation of oligo (phenylene ethynylene)(OPE) inserted between molecules of monolayers of dodecanethiol self-assembled on Au(111)/mica substrates, and XPS results of phenylacetylene and 1-bromo-2-ethynylbenzene attached to Si (111) substrates. The investigated OPE are both unsubstituted and substituted with a single -NO₂ group on the central ring [4,4’-(diethynylphenyl)-2’-nitro-1-benzenethiolate] inserted in the defects of dodecanethiol SAMs. The conductivity of those systems attached to Au varies as a function of time. Our results show no particular dependence of this variable conductivity on substitution and structure of the monolayer. In addition, preliminary experiments have been performed attaching phenylacetylene and 1-bromo-2-ethynylenebenzene to variously doped hydrogen terminated Si(111) surfaces in-situ using UV photon assisted propagation reactions. The object is to determine how the conductivity through the molecules depends upon the relative alignment of the substrate conduction and valence bands and the molecular bonding and antibonding levels.

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Moses W. Haimbodi, Adam M. Rawlett, Conan Wieland, Korhan Demirkan, Anshuman Anshuman, and Robert L. Opila "STM and XPS investigation of molecular electronics bonded to substrates", Proc. SPIE 5592, Nanofabrication: Technologies, Devices, and Applications, (19 January 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571524

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Molecules

Scanning tunneling microscopy

Molecular electronics

Silicon

Ultraviolet radiation

Gold

Self-assembled monolayers

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