We present electronic transport measurements through thiolated C60 molecules in liquid environment. The molecules were placed within a mechanically controllable break junction using a single anchoring group per molecule. When varying the electrode separation of the C60-modified junctions, we observed a peak in the conductance traces. The shape of the curves is strongly influenced by the environment of the junction as shown by measurements in two distinct solvents. In the framework of a simple resonant tunneling model, we can extract the electronic tunneling rates governing the transport properties of the junctions.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507264,
title = {Resonant tunneling through a C60 molecular junction in liquid environment},
author = {Lucia Grueter and Fuyong Cheng and Tero T. Heikkilä and M. Teresa González and Francois Diederich and Christian Schoenenberger and Michel Calame},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507264},
year = {2016}
}