How do electronic carriers cross Si-bound alkyl monolayers?

Abstract

Electron transport through Si-C bound alkyl chains, sandwiched between n-Si and Hg, is characterized by two distinct types of barriers, each dominating in a different voltage range. At low voltage, current depends strongly on temperature but not on molecular length, suggesting transport by thermionic emission over a barrier in the Si. At higher voltage, the current decreases exponentially with molecular length, suggesting tunneling through the molecules. The tunnel barrier is estimated, from transport and photoemission data, to be ~1.5 eV with a 0.25me effective mass.

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