Volume 174, 2014

Exploring coherent transport through π-stacked systems for molecular electronic devices

Abstract

Understanding electron transport across π-stacked systems can help to elucidate the role of intermolecular tunneling in molecular junctions and potentially with the design of high-efficiency molecular devices. Here we show how conjugation length and substituent groups influence the electron transport and thermoelectric response in the π-stacked structures by investigating five representative stacked molecular junctions. We found that a π-stacked system of two substituted anthracenes exhibits good thermopower and a high power factor, suggesting that increased conjugation can enhance the thermoelectric response. The fully eclipsed structure of quinhydrone exhibits a high power factor at the minimum energy structure and could thus be a better candidate in a thermoelectric device compared with the other π-stacked systems considered.

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Apr 2014
Accepted
02 Jun 2014
First published
06 Oct 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Faraday Discuss., 2014,174, 21-35

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Exploring coherent transport through π-stacked systems for molecular electronic devices

Q. Li and G. C. Solomon, Faraday Discuss., 2014, 174, 21 DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00083H

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