Molecular orbital analysis of frontier orbitals for molecular electronics: A case study of unimolecular rectifier and photovoltaic cell

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-382

  Mizuseki, Hiroshi ^a   Belosludov, Rodion V ^a   Farajian, Amir A ^a   Igarashi, Nobuaki ^a   Wang, Jian Tao ^a,b   Chen, Hao ^a,c   Majumder, Chiranjib ^a,d   Miura, Shigeyuki ^a   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

First principles calculations; Molecular device; Molecular rectifier; Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnology; Photovoltaic cell

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FULLERENES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PORPHYRINS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITAL ANALYSIS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 0242573533     PISSN: 14686996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1468-6996(03)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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