Negative differential resistance in transport through organic molecules on silicon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Quek, Su Ying ^a,b   Neaton, J B ^b   Hybertsen, Mark S ^c,f   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^a,d   Louie, Steven G ^b,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SILICON;

AMINOCYCLOPENTENE; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE (NDR); ORGANIC MOLECULES; PYRROLINES; RESONANT TUNNELING MODEL;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33847007673     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.066807     Document Type: Article

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