Vibrational Inelastic Scattering Effects in Molecular Electronics

by H. Ness & A. J. Fisher Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21 Jun 2005 We describe how to treat the interaction of traveling electrons with localized vibrational modes in nanojunctions. We present a multichannel scattering technique, which can be applied to calculate the transport properties for realistic systems, and we show how it is related to other methods that are useful in particular cases. We apply our technique to describe recent experiments on the conductance through molecular junctions. Read more