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Unconventional Electromechanical Response in Ferrocene-Assisted Gold Atomic Chain
Pabi, Biswajit, Marek, Stepan
, Klein, Tal, Thakur, Arunabha, Korytar, Richard
and Nath Pal, Atindra
(2025)
Unconventional Electromechanical Response in Ferrocene-Assisted Gold Atomic Chain.
Nano Letters 25 (36), pp. 13511-13518.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 22 Oct 2025 04:31
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.77993
Abstract
Atomically thin metallic chains serve as pivotal systems for studying quantum transport, with their conductance strongly linked to the orbital picture. We report an unusual electromechanical response in Au/ferrocene/Au junctions, manifested as tilted “Z”- and “V”-shaped features with more than an order-of-magnitude conductance change upon stretching at cryogenic temperatures, a striking deviation ...
Atomically thin metallic chains serve as pivotal systems for studying quantum transport, with their conductance strongly linked to the orbital picture. We report an unusual electromechanical response in Au/ferrocene/Au junctions, manifested as tilted “Z”- and “V”-shaped features with more than an order-of-magnitude conductance change upon stretching at cryogenic temperatures, a striking deviation from the flat, decaying, or occasionally increasing profiles typically observed in metallic or molecular junctions. This response emerges during the formation of a ferrocene-assisted atomic gold chain in a mechanically controllable break junction setup, enabled by direct metal–organometallic bonding in the absence of anchoring groups. Density functional calculations reveal that molecular tilting within the chain modulates orbital overlap and transmission spectra, driving the observed conductance evolution. These findings identify metallocene as a distinct class of molecular systems with strong mechanical–electronic coupling, opening pathways to engineer nanoscale devices through the interplay of orbital hybridization and mechanical deformation.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Nano Letters | ||||
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society (ACS) | ||||
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| Volume: | 25 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 36 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 13511-13518 | ||||
| Date | 28 August 2025 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Ferdinand Evers Regensburg Center for UltrafastNanoscopy (RUN) | ||||
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| Keywords | Ferrocene, Break junction, Electro-mechanical response, Atomic chains, Molecule assisted atomic chain | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||
| Item ID | 77993 |
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