Molecular Electronics

An Introduction to Theory and Experiment

Molecular Electronics is self-contained and unified in its presentation. It can be used as a textbook on nanoelectronics by graduate students and advanced undergraduates studying physics and chemistry. In addition, included in this new edition are previously unpublished material that will help researchers gain a deeper understanding into the basic concepts involved in the field of molecular electronics.

Contents:

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• Brief History of the Field and Experimental Techniques:

  • The Birth of Molecular Electronics
  • Fabrication of Metallic Atomic-Size Contacts
  • Contacting Single Molecules: Experimental Techniques

• Theoretical Background:

  • The Scattering Approach to Phase-Coherent Transport in Nanocontacts
  • Introduction to Green's Function Techniques for Systems in Equilibrium
  • Green's Functions and Feynman Diagrams
  • Nonequilibrium Green's Functions Formalism
  • Formulas of the Electrical Current: Exploiting the Keldysh Formalism
  • Electronic Structure I: Tight-Binding Approach
  • Electronic Structure II: Density Functional Theory

• Metallic Atomic-Size Contacts:

  • The Conductance of a Single Atom
  • Spin-Dependent Transport in Ferromagnetic Atomic Contacts

• Transport Through Molecular Junctions:

  • Coherent Transport Through Molecular Junctions I: Basic Concepts
  • Coherent Transport Through Molecular Junctions II: Test-Bed Molecules
  • Single-Molecule Transistors: Coulomb Blockade and Kondo Physics
  • Vibrationally-Induced Inelastic Current I: Experiment
  • Vibrationally-Induced Inelastic Current II: Theory
  • The Hopping Regime and Biomolecular Electronics
  • Beyond Electrical Conductance: Shot Noise and Thermal Transport
  • Optical Properties of Current-Carrying Molecular Junctions
  • What is Missing in this Book?

• Appendix A: Second Quantization

• Bibliography

• Index

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in nanoscience and nanotechnology, physics, chemistry, nanoelectronics and molecular electronics.

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Key Features:

• First unified monograph in molecular electronics
• First textbook focused on the electronic transport through single atoms and molecules
• Comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of molecular electronics