We demonstrate an application of our proposed AFM technique by creating micrometer-sized molecular junctions. Using droplet probes with radius R = 1.5-2.5 µm, we contacted the SAM surface in air with a maximum applied force of F max = 10 nN and the resulting geometric contact radius r = 0.5-1.2 µm, similar in size to the typical grain size in templatestripped gold. We then recorded the current I as the voltage V was varied in the range V fixed at -5 V) vs n. For each alkanethiol, the results are averaged over at least 10 junctions with 40 sweeps per junction, and the error bars represent the 95% confidence interval from Gaussian logarithmic fit to this data (detail of the statistical analysis in Supporting Figure and Supporting Table ).