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SUBMITTER: Bessis C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4750039 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bessis C C Della Rocca M L ML Barraud C C Martin P P Lacroix J C JC Markussen T T Lafarge P P
Scientific reports 20160211
Electron-phonon coupling is a fundamental inelastic interaction in condensed matter and in molecules. Here we probe phonon excitations using quantum interference in electron transport occurring in short chains of anthraquinone based molecular junctions. By studying the dependence of molecular junction's conductance as a function of bias voltage and temperature, we show that inelastic scattering of electrons by phonons can be detected as features in conductance resulting from quenching of quantum ...[more]