2002/01/08 by G. Fagas, G. Cuniberti, K. Richter
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
published as In `Molecular Electronics II'. A. Aviram, M. Ratner, and V. Mujica Eds. New York Academy of Sciences (2002). ISBN: 1573314102 · 12 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2002/01/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We discuss the conductance of a molecular bridge between mesoscopic electrodes supporting low-dimensional transport and bearing an internal structure. As an example for such nanoelectrodes we assume semi-infinite (carbon) nanotubes. In the Landauer scattering matrix approach, we show that the conductance of this hybrid is very sensitive to the geometry of the contact unlike the usual behaviour in the presence of bulk electrodes.