分子和金表面相互作用的第一性原理研究

硫氢官能团可以很强地吸附于金表面上,从而可作为连接体用于纳米电子学中的分子器件.从第一性原理出发利用密度泛函理论研究了4,4′二巯基联苯分子和金表面的相互作用,并利用了前线轨道理论和微扰理论定量地确定了该相互作用能常数.计算结果表明,当含有硫氢官能团的有机分子化学吸附于金表面时,硫原子将与金原子形成以共价键为主的混和键,此时一些分子轨道扩展于金原子和有机分子中,这些轨道为分子结中电子的输运提供了通道,从而可使分子线的电导呈现出欧姆特性.而其他分子轨道具有局域性,此时电子的输运只能通过隧道效应来实现. 关键词： 化学吸附 分子线 分子电子学     

分子和金表面相互作用的第一性原理研究

从第一性原理出发利用密度泛函理论研究了 4 ,4′ 二巯基联苯分子和金表面的相互作用 ,并利用了前线轨道理论和微扰理论定量地确定了该相互作用能常数. By using density functional theory, we have investigated the interaction between a thiol-phenyl molecule (4-4′-dimercaptodibenzene) and a gold surface. The frontier orbit theory and the perturbation theory are also employed to determine quantitatively the constant of interaction energy. The results show that the bonding between the sulfur atom and the gold atoms corresponds mainly to the covalent bond and some molecular orbits are extended over the molecule and gold cluster which certainly give channels...     

分子线的伏-安特性研究

利用密度泛函理论计算了共扼分子2-氨基-5-硝基-1, 4-二乙炔基-4′-苯硫醇基苯的电子结构, 并利用弹性散射格林函数方法研究了该分子与金表面形成的分子线的伏-安特性. 该工作将有利于未来分子电子学器件的设计.     

分子线电子输运特性的第一性原理研究

从第一性原理出发 ,利用密度泛函理论研究了SH -C8H16-SH分子和金表面的相互作用 ,并利用分子前线轨道理论和微扰理论定量地确定了该相互作用能常数 ,然后 ,利用弹性散射格林函数方法研究了该分子与金表面形成的分子线的伏 安特性 .研究结果表明 ,当含有硫氢官能团的有机分子化学吸附于金表面时 ,硫原子将与金原子形成以共价键为主的混和键 ,此时 ,扩展的分子轨道使分子线的电导呈现出欧姆特性 ,而对于局域的分子轨道 ,电子的输运只能通过隧道效应来实现 .对分子线伏 安特性的计算结果显示 ,在零偏压附近 ,存在一个电流禁区 ,随着偏压的增加 ,分子线的电导呈现出平台特征 .     

分子线的电子输运特性

从第一性原理出发利用密度泛函理论计算了共扼分子2氨基5硝基1,4二乙炔基4′苯硫醇基苯(2amino5nitro1,4diethyny4′benzenethiolbenzene)的电子结构,并利用前线轨道理论和微扰理论定量地确定了该分子与金表面的相互作用能常数.然后,利用弹性散射格林函数方法研究了该分子与金表面形成的分子线的伏安特性.计算结果表明,分子通过硫氢官能团可以很强地吸附于金表面上,形成以共价键为主的混合键,从而为电子的转移提供了通道.当外加偏压很低时,分子线的电流存在禁区,禁区的宽度约08eV. 关键词： 化学吸附 分子线 分子电子学     

电场对分子线电子结构的影响

从第一性原理出发,利用密度泛函理论计算了分子2-氨基-5-硝基-1,4-二乙炔基-4-苯硫醇基苯与金原子团形成的分子线的电子结构,从轨道、能级及吸附电子三个方面讨论了电场对分子线电子结构的影响.该工作将有利于未来纳米电子学器件的设计.     

电场对分子线电荷密度的影响

本文以分子2-氨基5-硝基-1,4-二乙炔基-4'-苯硫醇基苯为研究对象,该分子通过硫氢官能团化学吸附于两金表面构成一分子线.从第一性原理出发利用密度泛函理论优化了该分子体系的几何结构,计算了分子线的电子结构.外加电场将影响分子的电子结构,从而进一步影响电子在分子线内的输运,本文主要对不同电场下分子线的电荷密度分布进行了讨论与计算.该工作将有利于未来分子电子学器件的设计.     

分子结电学特性的理论研究

在第一性原理的基础上，对共扼分子2-氨基-5-硝基-1，4-二乙炔基-4’，-苯硫醇基苯(2-amino-5-nitro-1,4-diethyny-4’-benzenethiol-benzene)与金表面形成的分子结的电学特性进行了理论研究.利用密度泛函理论计算了该分子及扩展分子的电子结构；讨论了分子与金表面的相互作用，定量地确定了耦合常数，求出了电子的迁移强度；利用弹性散射格林函数法研究了该分子结的伏—安特性.计算结果表明，当外加偏压小于0.9V时分子结存在电流禁区，随着偏压升高，分子结的电导出现平台特 关键词： 化学吸附 分子结 分子电子学     

单电荷带电态对分子线输运特性的影响

利用Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(SSH)模型及平衡格林函数方法研究了一维分子线基态与带电态下的电子输运特性.研究发现,分子线基态对应较高的阻态,而带电态对应较低的阻态.分子线在带电态(低阻态)与基态(高阻态)之间转换,可使体系具有导电开关的功能,这与近来实验上观察到的一些现象相符.进一步讨论了链长对分子线输运特性的影响.     

分子间相互作用对硫醇分子膜电输运性质的影响

利用密度泛函理论和弹性散射格林函数方法,对硫醇分子膜的电学特性进行模拟.计算结果表明,由于分子间的相互作用,导致分子膜的导电能力比单分子提高2~3个数量级.分子结的导电能力随着压力增加而增加,电极距离的变化使分子与电极以及分子间的耦合增强、分子结的链内隧穿和链间隧穿几率增大,导致电流增加.     

Molecular scale electronic devices using single molecules and molecular monolayers

Molecular electronic devices that utilize single molecules or molecular monolayers as active electronic components represent a promising approach in the ongoing miniaturization and integration of electronic devices. Rapid advances in technology have enabled us to engineer molecular electronic devices with diverse functionalities. Significant progress has been made in understanding charge transport in molecular systems at the single-molecule level, and concomitantly, new device concepts have emerged. This review article focuses on experimental aspects of electronic devices made with single molecules or molecular monolayers, with a primary focus on the characterization and manipulation of charge transport.     

Interaction between fullerene-wheeled nanocar and gold substrate: A DFT study

Since the successful synthesis of nanocar and its surprising movement on the gold surface, several theoretical investigations have been devoted to explain the interaction properties as well as its movement mechanism on the substrate. All of them failed, however, to gain a clear theoretical insight into the respected challenges because of the weak computational methods implemented for this complex system including heavy metal atoms and giant size of the whole system. In this work, we have investigated the adsorption of fullerene-wheeled nanocar onto a Au (1 1 1) substrate using the comprehensive first-principles density functional theory (DFT) simulations. The binding energy between the nanocar and Au (1 1 1) surface was determined to be −9.43 eV (−217.45 kcal/mol). The net charge transfer from the nanocar to the gold substrate was calculated to be about 9.56 electrons. Furthermore, the equilibrium distances between the Au surface and the C₆₀ molecule and nanocar chassis were estimated to be 2.20 Å and 2.30 Å, respectively. The BSSE correction was also considered in the binding energy estimation and the result show that the BSSE correction significantly affects the calculated binding energy for such systems.Finally, we have performed ab initio molecular dynamics simulation for a single C₆₀ fullerene on the gold surface at room temperature. Our first-principles result shows that ambient condition affect remarkably on the adsorption property of fullerene on the gold surface. We also observed that the C₆₀ fullerene wheel slips by approximately 3.90 Å within 5 ps of simulation time at 300 K.     

Local reactivity of ultrathin platinum overlayers and surface alloys on a gold surface

The geometric and electronic structure, the stability, and CO adsorption properties of pseudomorphic Pt overlayers and PtAu surface alloys on a Au(1 1 1) substrate have been addressed on the basis of first-principles calculations. We have found that two-monolayer thick surface alloys are more stable than one-monolayer thick alloys. The CO binding energies at the top sites of two-monolayer thick surface alloys increase gradually with the Pt concentration, while the energies are almost independent of the concentration for one-monolayer thick surface alloys. This difference is caused by the lower symmetry of the two-monolayer thick surface alloys, which makes the effect of neighboring atoms in the first layer more important.     

The effect of semi-infinite crystalline electrodes on transmission of gold atomic wires using DFT

First principle calculations of the conductance of gold atomic wires containing chain of 3–8 atoms each with 2.39 Å bond lengths are presented using density functional theory. Three different configurations of wire/electrodes were used. For zigzag wire with semi-infinite crystalline electrodes, even–odd oscillation is observed which is consistent with the previously reported results. A lower conductance is observed for the chain in semi-infinite crystalline electrodes compared to the chains suspended in wire-like electrode. The calculated transmission spectrum for the straight and zig-zag wires suspended between semi-infinite crystalline electrodes showed suppression of transmission channels due to electron scattering occurring at the electrode-wire interface.     

The interaction of dimethylsulfoxide with a gold surface

The interaction of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) with a Au(100) surface was studied by means of TDS, XPS and ΔΦ measurements. At monolayer coverages, DMSO desorbs from two states situated at the relatively high temperatures of 240 and 275 K. The adsorbed molecule, however, shows no chemical shifts in its core levels. This is rationalized by a bidentate bonding of DMSO to the surface through the electron lone-pairs on the O and S atoms. The adsorption geometry agrees also with the behavior of the work function (ΔΦ_DMSO = − 770 meV).     

Long-range repulsive interaction between molecules on a metal surface induced by charge transfer

The adsorption of a molecular electron donor on Au(111) is characterized by the spontaneous formation of a superlattice of monomers spaced several nanometers apart. The coverage-dependent molecular pair distributions obtained from scanning tunneling microscopy data reveal an intermolecular long-range repulsive potential, which decreases as the inverse of the molecular separation. Density functional theory calculations show a charge accumulation in the molecules due to electron donation into the metal. Our results suggest that electrostatic repulsion between molecules persists on the surface of a metal.     

ToF-SIMS study of gold/phthalocyanine interface

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) was used to characterize the interface between thin molecular film (metal-free phthalocyanine, H₂Pc) and top deposited gold layer. Such inorganic-on-organic interface is widely employed in molecular electronics and considered in numerous studies on contact phenomena in phthalocyanine-based devices. Analysis of ToF-SIMS data during the depth profiling and comparison of two different methods used for deposition of top metal layer (thermal evaporation vs. magnetron sputtering) reveal peculiar structural features of this interface. In particular, oxidation of molecules near the interface is accompanied by the mutual diffusion of components when Au layer is deposited by thermal evaporation. This diffusion leads to the saturation of metallic layer with organic species and hence to its vertical expansion. Both geometry and chemistry of Au/H₂Pc interface can be modified by varying the deposition method.