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SUBMITTER: Mezei G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7528405 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The journal of physical chemistry letters 20200911 19
We investigate gold-4,4'-bipyridine-gold single-molecule junctions with the mechanically controllable break junction technique at cryogenic temperature (<i>T</i> = 4.2 K). We observe bistable probabilistic conductance switching between the two molecular binding configurations, influenced both by the mechanical actuation and by the applied voltage. We demonstrate that the relative dominance of the two conductance states is tunable by the electrode displacement, whereas the voltage manipulation in ...[more]