Probing molecule-metal bonding in molecular junctions by inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1693-1698

  Kula, Mathias ^a   Jiang, Jun ^a   Luo, Yi ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTRA (IETS); MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS; MOLECULE-METAL BONDING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METALS; MICROELECTRODES; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMERS;

EID: 33748329697     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl060951w     Document Type: Article

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