Conductance of an ensemble of molecular wires: A statistical analysis

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Hu, Yibin ^a,b   Zhu, Yu ^b   Gao, Hongjun ^a   Guo, Hong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6-ALKANEDITHIOL; BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR WIRES; MOLECULE-ELECTRODE CONTACTS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODES; GOLD; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

WIRE;

EID: 28844479124     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.156803     Document Type: Article

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