Probing the Different Stages in Contacting a Single Molecular Wire

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Moresco, Francesca ^a   Gross, Leo ^a   Alemani, Micol ^a   Rieder, Karl Heinz ^a   Tang, Hao ^b   Gourdon, André ^b   Joachim, Christian ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRONIC CONTACT; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; SINGLE MOLECULAR WIRE;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 0041384348     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.036601     Document Type: Article

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