Current-driven conformational changes, charging, and negative differential resistance in molecular wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Emberly, Eldon G ^a   Kirczenow, George ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THEORY;

EID: 0035883611     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.125318     Document Type: Article

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