Abstract
We have studied electronic transmission across metal/conjugated-oligomer/metal structures: (a) one oligomer chain, and (b) two oligomer chains sandwiched between metal contacts, in the presence of lattice fluctuations. The lattice fluctuations are approximated by static white noise disorder. Resonant transmission occurs when the energy of an incoming electron coincides with a discrete electronic level of the oligomer. Because of disorder there is an enhancement of electronic transmission for energies that lie within the electronic gap of the oligomer. If fluctuations are sufficiently strong, a transmission peak within the gap is found at the midgap energy E = 0 for degenerate conjugated oligomers. For the two-chain case the spatial mirror symmetry is broken and coherence between the wavefunctions of two chains is partly lost when fluctuations are introduced.
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