Mechanism for negative differential resistance in molecular electronic devices: Local orbital symmetry matching

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Lan ^a   Hu, Zhenpeng ^a   Zhao, Aidi ^a   Wang, Bing ^a   Luo, Yi ^a,b   Yang, Jinlong ^a   Hou, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

COBALT PHTHALOCYANINES (COPC); METAL TIPS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE (NDR);

MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS;

EID: 34948844163     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.146803     Document Type: Article

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