% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @PHDTHESIS{Fournier:480713, author = {Fournier, Norman}, othercontributors = {Tautz, Frank Stefan and van Ruitenbeek, J. M.}, title = {{STM}-based quantum transport through molecular wires}, volume = {108}, school = {Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch.}, type = {Dissertation}, address = {Jülich}, publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich, Zentralbibliothek}, reportid = {RWTH-2015-03846}, isbn = {978-3-95806-059-3}, series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich : Reihe Schlüsseltechnologien}, pages = {IX, 295 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.}, year = {2015}, note = {Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2015}, abstract = {The further miniaturization of electronic devices is a strong driving force in science. Since a few decades systems based on organic materials are studied. One goal is to create applications performed nowadays by silicon based CMOS technology with organic materials. In these studies the interest is placed upon diverse properties of the organic molecules, such as their electronic, geometric, thermal, optical, and electroluminescence characteristics. One of the main problems of these studies is the lack of geometrical control of the systems during the measurements. As the physical properties critically depend on the exact geometry, contradictory results are found in literature. To overcome this lack of control, this work introduces a new method which allows transport studies on single molecules with highly controlled junction geometries. The concept of this method, which is based on scanning probe methods, will be presented as well as its realization. The method will be applied to molecule-metal junctions with molecules of different lengths which are contacted by different metal electrodes. It will be shown that highly reproducible experiments can be performed. Furthermore, the physical interpretation of the measurements will be discussed. It will be demonstrated that the profound knowledge of the geometry in these junctions helps to get a better understanding of the transport properties.}, cin = {134110 / 130000}, ddc = {530}, cid = {$I:(DE-82)134110_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)130000_20140620$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11 / PUB:(DE-HGF)3}, urn = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-rwth-2015-038460}, url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/480713}, }