A single-molecule diode

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

Volumn 102, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 8815-8820

  Elbing, Mark ^a   Ochs, Rolf ^a   Koentopp, Max ^a   Fischer, Matthias ^a   Von Hänisch, Carsten ^a   Weigend, Florian ^a   Evers, Ferdinand ^a   Weber, Heiko B ^b   Mayor, Marcel ^a,c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Molecular electronics; Rectification; Single molecule studies

Indexed keywords

GOLD; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; DIODE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; MOLECULE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 21144433023     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408888102     Document Type: Article

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