Fig. 3
From: In-situ formation of one-dimensional coordination polymers in molecular junctions
Observation of trimer formation. a Combined 2D–1D histogram and sample trace for 420 opening conductance traces (29%) for 100 μM BdNC measurements exhibiting third plateau formation. Red curves represent Gaussian fit of the conductance histogram for the plateaus yielding conductance values of 7 × 10−2 G0, 1.6 · 10−4 G0 and 5.0 × 10−6 G0 for plateaus P1, P2 and P3, respectively. 2D–1D histogram for remaining 1025 traces (71%) is shown on the inset. b Experimental and computed conductance decay versus number of BdNC units. Error bars correspond to the standard deviations of the conductance peaks fit in (a). c The three junction geometries containing one gold atom as interconnect that have been used to compute the transmission shown in (d). d Calculated transmission functions for the chains formed by 1–3 BdNC units with one gold atom between units
