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Light Emission and Conductance Fluctuations in Electrically Driven and Plasmonically Enhanced Molecular Junctions

Amirtharaj, Sakthi Priya  
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Xie, Zhiyuan  
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See, Josephine Si Yu
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June 6, 2024
Acs Photonics

Electrically connected and plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions combine the optical functionalities of high field confinement and enhancement (cavity function), and of high radiative efficiency (antenna function) with the electrical functionalities of molecular transport. Such combined optical and electrical probes have proven useful for the fundamental understanding of metal-molecule contacts and contribute to the development of nanoscale optoelectronic devices including ultrafast electronics and nanosensors. Here, we employ a self-assembled metal-molecule-metal junction with a nanoparticle bridge to investigate correlated fluctuations in conductance and tunneling-induced light emission at room temperature. Despite the presence of hundreds of molecules in the junction, the electrical conductance and light emission are both highly sensitive to atomic-scale fluctuations-a phenomenology reminiscent of picocavities observed in Raman scattering and of luminescence blinking from photoexcited plasmonic junctions. Discrete steps in conductance associated with fluctuating emission intensities through the multiple plasmonic modes of the junction are consistent with a finite number of randomly localized, point-like sources dominating the optoelectronic response. Contrasting with these microscopic fluctuations, the overall plasmonic and electronic functionalities of our devices feature long-term survival at room temperature and under an electrical bias of a few volts, allowing for measurements over several months.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00291
Web of Science ID

WOS:001242704300001

Author(s)
Amirtharaj, Sakthi Priya  
Xie, Zhiyuan  
See, Josephine Si Yu
Rolleri, Gabriele
Malchow, Konstantin  
Chen, Wen  
Bouhelier, Alexandre
Lortscher, Emanuel
Galland, Christophe  
Date Issued

2024-06-06

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Acs Photonics
Volume

11

Issue

6

Start page

2388

End page

2396

Subjects

Technology

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Physical Sciences

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Molecular Junctions

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Fluctuating Atom-Molecular Contacts

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Inelastic Electron Tunneling

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Combined Transport And Optical Spectroscopy

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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GR-GA  
FunderGrant Number

European Union

820196

Swiss National Science Foundation

170684

French Agence Nationalede la Recherche

ANR-20-CE24-0001DALHAI

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