Single-electron transistor of a single organic molecule with access to several redox states

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6959, 2003, Pages 698-701

  Kubatkin, Sergey ^a   Danilov, Andrey ^a   Hjort, Mattias ^b   Cornil, Jérôme ^b,c   Brédas, Jean Luc ^b,c,e   Stuhr Hansen, Nicolai ^d   Hedegård, Per ^d   Bjørnholm, Thomas ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b University of Arizona ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ORGANIC MOLECULES; SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTORS;

TRANSISTORS;

4 PHENYLENEVINYLENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; IONIZATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; VIBRATION;

EID: 0142183388     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02010     Document Type: Article

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