Towards a chemically driven molecular electron pump

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 3859-3862

  Dean Astumian, R ^a,b   Derényi, Imre ^b,c  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMI LEVEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ELECTRON PUMPING; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MOLECULAR WIRE; THOULESS ADIABATIC PUMPING;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0342538611     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3859     Document Type: Article

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