Inelastic tunneling effects on noise properties of molecular junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Galperin, Michael ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^b   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 33747624722     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.075326     Document Type: Article

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