First-principles study of the switching mechanism of [2]catenane molecular electronic devices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Kim, Yong Hoon ^a,b   Jang, Seung Soon ^a   Jang, Yun Hee ^a   Goddard III, William A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PRINCIPLES STUDY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES; MOLECULAR ORBITAL LEVELS; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE;

ELECTRODES; FERMI LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MONOLAYERS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

EID: 18144428373     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.156801     Document Type: Article

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