Recent advances in molecular scale electronics

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 852, Issue , 1998, Pages 197-204

  Tour, James M ^a   Reinerth, William A ^a   Jones II, Leroy ^a   Burgin, Timothy P ^a   Zhou, Chong Wu ^b   Muller, C J ^b   Deshpande, M R ^b   Reed, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; OLIGOMER; RESIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONDUCTANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; SYNTHESIS;

ALLIGATOR;

EID: 0031876384     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09873.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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