Abstract
Molecular wires are covalently bonded to gold electrodes--to form metal-molecule-metal junctions--by functionalizing each end with a -SH group. The conductance of a wide variety of molecular junctions is studied theoretically by using first-principles density functional theory (DFT) combined with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Based on the chain-length-dependent conductance of the series of molecular wires, the attenuation factor beta is obtained and compared with the experimental data. The beta value is quantitatively correlated to the molecular HOMO-LUMO gap. Coupling between the metallic electrode and the molecular bridge plays an important role in electron transport. A contact resistance of 6.0+/-2.0 Kohms is obtained by extrapolating the molecular-bridge length to zero. This value is of the same magnitude as the quantum resistance.
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