Conductance investigations of stretched molecules

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 403-405

  Speyer, Gil ^a   Akis, Richard ^a   Ferry, David K ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular electronics; Transfer matrix method

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GOLD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

CONDUCTANCE; GOLD SUBSTRATE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; TRANSFER MATRIC METHOD;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 24344484059     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2005.851287     Document Type: Article

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