Efficacy of Au-Au contacts for scanning tunneling microscopy molecular conductance measurements

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2007, Pages 17635-17639

  Millar, David ^b   Venkataraman, Latha ^c   Doerrer, Linda H ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL LINK GROUPS; HISTOGRAMS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; STERIC BULK;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GOLD; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 37049037970     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp0756101     Document Type: Article

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