Electronic transport properties of free-base tape-porphyrin molecular wires studied by self-consistent tight-binding calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Tagami, Katsunori ^a,b   Tsukada, Masaru ^b   Matsumoto, Takuya ^c,d   Kawai, Tomoji ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON; MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; PORPHYRIN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BOND; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042529040     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.245324     Document Type: Article

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