Current-driven oscillations and time-dependent transport in nanojunctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 22, 2005, Pages

  Kaun, Chao Cheng ^a   Seideman, Tamar ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ENERGY; CONDUCTANCE PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR CONFIGURATION; NONEQUILIBRIUM FORMALISM;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GOLD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RESONANCE;

OSCILLATIONS;

EID: 27744467844     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.226801     Document Type: Article

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