Charge transport along the λ-DNA double helix

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1564-1567

  Tran, P ^a   Alavi, B ^a   Gruner, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRONIC CHARGE TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

DNA;

VIRUS DNA;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034238116     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1564     Document Type: Article

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