Current-voltage characteristics of molecular conductors: Two versus three terminal

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 145-152

  Damle, Prashant ^a   Rakshit, Titash ^a,b   Paulsson, Magnus ^a   Datta, Supriyo ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatic analysis; Molecular electronics; MOSFETs; Non equilibrium Green's ffunction (NEGF) for malism; Quantum transport

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FFUNCTION (NEGF) FOR-MALISM; QUANTUM TRANSPORT;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS; MOSFET DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33745514807     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2002.806825     Document Type: Article

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