NEGF-HF Method in Molecular Junction Property Calculations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1006, Issue , 2003, Pages 48-67

  Galperin, Michael ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Molecular capacitors; Molecular electronics; Nonequilibrium Green's function; Rectification

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; GOLD; MERCURY; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0347320481     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1292.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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