Direct determination of the energy required to operate a single molecule switch

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Loppacher, Ch ^a   Guggisberg, M ^a   Pfeiffer, O ^a   Meyer, E ^a   Bammerlin, M ^b   Luthi R ^b   Schlittler, R ^b   Gimzewski, J K ^b,d   Tang, H ^c   Joachim, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CEMES CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

DIBUTYLPHENYL; INTERMOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SINGLE MOLECULE SWITCH; STATE-OF THE-ART TRANSISTORS; SWITCHING ENERGY;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0037435846     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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