Single electron transistor with a single conjugated molecule

Current Applied Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 554-558

  Kubatkin, Sergey ^a   Danilov, Andrey ^a   Hjort, Mattias ^b   Cornil, Jérôme ^b,c   Brédas, Jean Luc ^b,c   Stuhr Hansen, Nicolai ^d   Hedegård, Per ^d   Bjørnholm, Thomas ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Image charges; Molecular electronics; Redox states; Single electron tunneling

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242754348     PISSN: 15671739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cap.2004.01.018     Document Type: Article

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