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    Measurement of Current-Induced Local Heating in a Single Molecule Junction
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    Department of Electrical Engineering & The Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, and Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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    We have studied the current-induced local heating effects in single molecules covalently bound to two electrodes by measuring the force required to break the molecule−electrode bonds under various conditions. The breakdown process is thermally activated, which is used to extract the effective temperature of the molecular junction as a function of applied bias voltage. We have also performed first-principles calculations of both local heating and current-induced force effects, and the results are in good agreement with the experimental findings.

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