Electrical rectification by a monolayer of hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide measured between macroscopic gold electrodes

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 105, Issue 30, 2001, Pages 7280-7290

  Metzger, Robert M ^a   Xu, Tao ^a   Peterson, Ian R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RECTIFICATIONS;

DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL; GOLD; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 0035797731     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp011084g     Document Type: Article

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