Tunneling rates in electron transport through double-barrier molecular junctions in a scanning tunneling microscope

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 8832-8837

  Nazin, G V ^a   Wu, S W ^a   Ho, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular electronics; Single molecule spectroscopy; Vibronic states

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM PORPHINE; OXIDE; PHTHALOCYANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FILM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; VACUUM; VIBRATION;

ALUMINUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NICKEL; VIBRATION;

EID: 21144432732     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0501171102     Document Type: Article

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