Single molecular conductance measurements of molecular junction of Au/1,4-phenylenediamine/Au

Abstract

It was reported recently that the diamine-terminated molecules show two sets of single molecular conductance peaks in the conductance histogram. Although we found another set of conductance value of 1,4-diaminobutane in a lower current range, it was difficult to determine the conductivity definitely because the compound has different conformations with different gauche contents within its molecular chain. To make it easier to determine and analyze a single molecular conductance we measured here the conductance of 1,4-phenylenediamine, whose conformation cannot be changed in terms of the gauche contents. As a result, new sets of conductance other than those reported recently [L. Venkataraman, J.E. Klare, C. Nuckolls, M.S. Hybertsen, M.L. Steigerwald, Nature 442 (2006) 904] were observed.