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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 1: Tutorial: Integration and Modelling of Nanoelectronic Components

DS 1.2: Tutorial

Sunday, March 10, 2013, 16:35–17:05, H3

Theory of electronic transport in single-molecule junctions — •Juan Carlos Cuevas — Departamento de Fisica Teorica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid (Spain)

The recent advancements in nanofabrication techniques have allowed to contact individual molecules between metallic electrodes and to investigate their transport properties. This has posed a formidable challenge for the theory, namely to elucidate the physical mechanisms that dominate the electronic conduction at the nanoscale. In this talk I will briefly review some of the theoretical techniques and tools that are currently being used to describe the transport properties of single-molecule junctions, and I will discuss the novel transport phenomena that occur in these systems.