화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.140, No.41, 13167-13170, 2018
Resonant Transport in Single Diketopyrrolopyrrole Junctions
We study the single-molecule transport properties of small bandgap diketopyrrolopyrrole oligomers (DPPn, n = 1-4) with lengths varying from 1 to 5 nm. At a low bias voltage, the conductance decays exponentially as a function of length indicative of nonresonant transport. However, at a high bias voltage, we observe a remarkably high conductance close to 10(-2) Go with currents reaching over 0.1 mu A across all four oligomers. These unique transport properties, together with density functional theory-based transport calculations, suggest a mechanism of resonant transport across the highly delocalized DPP backbones in the high bias regime. This study thus demonstrates the unique properties of diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives in achieving highly efficient long-range charge transport in single molecule devices.