The importance of chemical bonding to the contact for tunneling through alkyl chains

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 106, Issue 40, 2002, Pages 10432-10439

  Selzer, Yoram ^a,b   Salomon, Adi ^a   Cahen, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTROSTRICTION; HOLE MOBILITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRIC COUPLINGS;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 0037058059     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp026324m     Document Type: Article

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