Single-Molecule Designs for Electric Switches and Rectifiers

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1006, Issue , 2003, Pages 198-211

  Kornilovitch, Pavel ^a   Bratkovsky, Alexander ^b   Williams, Stanley ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; Conformational switching; Molecular electronics; Molecular rectifiers; Molecular switches

Indexed keywords

ATOM; CHEMICAL BOND; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATION; DEVICE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULE;

STATOR;

EID: 0346059319     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1292.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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