Electronic conductance through organic nanowires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Jalili, S ^a,b   Rafii Tabar, H ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

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EID: 28644435260     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.165410     Document Type: Article

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