Introducing molecular electronics: A brief overview

Lecture Notes in Physics

Volumn 680, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-10

  Cuniberti, Gianaurelio ^a   Fagas, Giorgos ^b   Richter, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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EID: 33749007401     PISSN: 00758450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31514-4_1     Document Type: Review

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