Thermal conductance through molecular wires

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 6840-6855

  Segal, Dvira ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PARAFFINS;

MOLECULAR WIRES;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

EID: 0142020872     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1603211     Document Type: Article

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