Dynamical corrections to the DFT-LDA electron conductance in nanoscale systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 18, 2005, Pages

  Sai, Na ^a   Zwolak, Michael ^b   Vignale, Giovanni ^c   Di Ventra, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LINEAR RESPONSE; MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS; NANOSCALE JUNCTIONS;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CORRELATION METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; POINT CONTACTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 27144496078     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.186810     Document Type: Article

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