Local density of states effects at the metal-molecule interfaces in a molecular device

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 394-399

  Boyen, Hans Gerd ^a   Ziemann, Paul ^a   Wiedwald, Ulf ^a   Ivanova, Valentina ^a   Kolb, Dieter M ^a   Sakong, Sung ^a   Gross, Axel ^a   Romanyuk, Andry ^b   Büttner, Michael ^b   Oelhafen, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DENSITY; DENSITY OF STATES EFFECTS; METAL-MOLECULE INTERFACES; MOLECULAR DEVICES;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 33646484498     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1607     Document Type: Article

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