How important Is the interfacial chemical bond for electron transport through alkyl chain monolayers?

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2873-2876

  Salomon, Adi ^a   Böcking, Till ^b   Gooding, J Justin ^b   Cahen, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

ALKYL CHAIN MONOLAYERS; INTERFACE DIPOLES; INTERFACIAL BONDS; TUNNELING BARRIERS;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 33846380283     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl062089y     Document Type: Article

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