Foundations of molecular electronics - Charge transport in molecular conduction junctions

Lecture Notes in Physics

Volumn 680, Issue , 2006, Pages 13-54

  Jortner, Joshua ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749040918     PISSN: 00758450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31514-4_2     Document Type: Article

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