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Single-wall-carbon-nanotube/single-carbon-chain molecular junctions

Source: Phys. Rev. B 81, 085439 (2010); doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.81.085439

Published 24 February 2010

ERRATUM
  1. Publisher's Note: Single-wall-carbon-nanotube/single-carbon-chain molecular junctions [Phys. Rev. B 81, 085439 (2010)]
    Felix Börrnert, Carina Börrnert, Sandeep Gorantla et al.
    Phys. Rev. B 81, 119901 (2010)
PACS
  • 61.48.De
    Structure of carbon nanotubes, boron nanotubes and closely related graphite-like systems
  • 82.37.-j
    Single molecule kinetics
  • YEAR: 2010
PUBLICATION DATA
ISSN:
1553-9644 (online)
Publisher:
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Felix Börrnert,1 Carina Börrnert,2 Sandeep Gorantla,1 Xianjie Liu,3 Alicja Bachmatiuk,1 Jan-Ole Joswig,4 Frank R. Wagner,2 Franziska Schäffel,1 Jamie H. Warner,5 Ronny Schönfelder,1 Bernd Rellinghaus,1 Thomas Gemming,1 Jürgen Thomas,1 Martin Knupfer,1 Bernd Büchner,1 and Mark H. Rümmeli1,4
1Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden e. V., PF 27 01 16, 01171 Dresden, Germany
2Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany
3Linköpings Universitet, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
4Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
5University of Oxford, Parks Rd., Oxford, OX1 3PH, United Kingdom
Stable junctions between a single carbon chain and two single-wall carbon nanotubes were produced via coalescence of functionalized fullerenes filled into a single-wall carbon nanotube and directly imaged by in situ transmission electron microscopy. First principles quantum chemical calculations support the observed stability of such molecular junctions. They also show that short carbon chains bound to other carbon structures are cumulenes and stable semiconductors due to Peierls-like distortion. Junctions like this can be regarded as archetypical building blocks for all-carbon molecular electronics. ©2010 The American Physical Society
History: Received 21 December 2009; revised 3 February 2010; published 24 February 2010
Permalink: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v81/e085439
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