Molecular nano-junctions formed with different metallic electrodes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 495-500

  Zhitenev, Nikolai B ^a   Erbe, Artur ^a,c   Bao, Zhenan ^a,d   Jiang, Weirong ^a,b   Garfunkel, Eric ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

ENERGY SCALES; NANOSCALE JUNCTIONS; NON-LINEAR CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 24144476930     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/16/4/027     Document Type: Article

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