Quantum transport through STM-lifted single PTCDA molecules
  Using a scanning tunneling microscope we have measured the quantum conductance through a PTCDA molecule for different configurations of the tip-molecule-surface junction. A peculiar conductance resonance arises at the Fermi level for certain tip to surface distances. We have relaxed the molecular junction coordinates and calculated transport by means of the Landauer/Keldysh approach. The zero bias transmission calculated for fixed tip positions in lateral dimensions but different tip substrate distances show a clear shift and sharpening of the molecular chemisorption level on increasing the STM-surface distance, in agreement with experiment. 
Florian Pump, Ruslan Temirov, Olga Neucheva, Serguei Soubatch, Stefan   Tautz, Michael Rohlfing, Gianaurelio Cuniberti