Measurement of the conductance of single conjugated molecules

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7051, 2005, Pages 677-680

  Dadosh, Tali ^a   Gordin, Yoav ^a   Krahne, Roman ^a,b   Khivrich, Ilya ^a   Mahalu, Diana ^a   Frydman, Veronica ^a   Sperling, Joseph ^a   Yacoby, Amir ^a   Bar Joseph, Israel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ETHERS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

METALLIC CONTACTS; MOLECULAR CONDUCTORS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC ORBITALS; SINGLE CONJUGATED MOLECULES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

1,4 BENZENEDIMETHANETHIOL; 4,4' BIPHENYLDITHIOL; BIS(4 MERCAPTOPHENYL)ETHER; CARBENE; DIMER; DITHIOL DERIVATIVE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GOLD; METAL; OXYGEN; SULFUR; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; COLLOID; CONDUCTANCE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 23644444648     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03898     Document Type: Article

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