Electronics and chemistry: Varying single-molecule junction conductance using chemical substituents

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 502-506

  Venkataraman, Latha ^a,b   Park, Young S ^b   Whalley, Adam C ^b   Nuckolls, Colin ^b   Hybertsen, Mark S ^a,b,c   Steigerwald, Michael L ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING SUBSTITUENTS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION CONDUCTANCE; NONRESONANT TUNNELING;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMI LEVEL; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NUCLEOPHILES;

AMINES;

EID: 33847703796     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl062923j     Document Type: Article

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