Theory of an all-carbon molecular switch

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-14724
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.1472

Gutiérrez, Rafael ; Fagas, Giorgos ; Cuniberti, Gianaurelio ; Grossmann, Frank ; Schmidt, Rüdiger ; Richter, Klaus

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Abstract

We study electron transport across a carbon molecular junction consisting of a C60 molecule sandwiched between two semi-infinite metallic carbon nanotubes. It is shown that the Landauer conductance of this carbon hybrid system can be tuned within orders of magnitude not only by varying the tube-C60 distance, but more importantly at fixed distances by (i) changing the orientation of the ...