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Reflections on charge transport

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By varying the distance between two electrodes bridged by a single molecule, the interaction between charges passing through the molecular junction and their mirror images in the metal contacts can be observed.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the image-charge effect.

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  1. Insitut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 12489, Germany

    Georg Heimel

  2. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332-0400, Georgia, USA

    Jean-Luc Brédas

  3. Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Jean-Luc Brédas

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