Conductance Properties of Stilbenopid Molecules

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1252-1256

  Gutiérrez, Rafael ^a   Grossman, Frank ^a   Schmidt, Rüdiger ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density functional calculation; Isomerization; Landauer theory; Molecular conductance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULES;

CONDUCTANCE PROPERTIES; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; LANDAUER; LANDAUER FORMALISMS; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR DEVICE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

STILBENE; CARBON; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CONDUCTANCE; DEVICE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OSCILLATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ISOMERISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ISOMERISM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STILBENES;

EID: 1442281381     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200300768     Document Type: Article

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