Effect of impurities on transport through organic self-assembled molecular films from first principles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Larade, B ^a   Bratkovsky, A M ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 33749159321     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.035440     Document Type: Article

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