Transition Voltage Spectroscopy and the Nature of Vacuum Tunneling

Abstract

Transition Voltage Spectroscopy (TVS) has been proposed as a tool to analyze charge transport through molecular junctions. We extend TVS to Au-vacuum-Au junctions and study the distance dependence of the transition voltage V_t(d) for clean electrodes in cryogenic vacuum. On the one hand, this allows us to provide an important reference for V_t(d)-measurements on molecular junctions. On the other hand, we show that TVS forms a simple and powerful test for vacuum tunneling models.

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