Abstract
We report a quantitative assessment of the efficacy of lattice cooling on mitigating local heating in a current-carrying single molecule wire connected to gold nanoelectrodes by comparative analyses of high-field effective temperatures at different ambient temperatures. We find substantial local heating in benzenedithiol single molecule junctions raising the local temperatures by ∼320 K from the ambient to ∼400 K at 0.85 V. The intense self-heating are attributable to decreased thermal conductance at low temperatures that leads to deteriorated heat transfer at metal-molecule contacts, thereby manifesting a critical role of lattice cooling for alleviating metal-molecule-metal junction overheating.
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