Unimolecular Rectifiers and Proposed Unimolecular Amplifier

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1006, Issue , 2003, Pages 252-276

  Metzger, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric rectification; Break junctions; Catenanes; Langmuir Blodgett films; Monolayer; Moore's law; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Schottky barriers; Self assembly; Unimolecular amplifier; Unimolecular electronics; Unimolecular rectifier

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CATENANE; GOLD; HYDROCARBON; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

AMPLIFIER; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER; CONDUCTANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0346059316     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1292.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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