Theoretical description of the electrical conduction in atomic and molecular junctions

Nanotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Cuevas, J C ^a   Heurich, J ^a   Pauly, F ^a   Wenzel, W ^b   Schön, Gerd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMIC JUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN MOLECULE; MACROSCOPIC ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0042824119     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/14/8/201     Document Type: Review

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