First-principles approach to the charge-transport characteristics of monolayer molecular-electronics devices: Application to hexanedithiolate devices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Kim, Yong Hoon ^a   Tahir Kheli, Jamil ^b   Schultz, Peter A ^c   Goddard III, William A ^b  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 33745296278     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.235419     Document Type: Article

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