Charge transport in single Au | alkanedithiol | Au junctions: Coordination geometries and conformational degrees of freedom

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 318-326

  Li, Chen ^a,b   Pobelov, Ilya ^a,b   Wandlowski, Thomas ^a,b   Bagrets, Alexei ^c   Arnold, Andreas ^c   Evers, Ferdinand ^c,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONFORMATIONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ALKANEDITHIOLS; JUNCTION CONFORMATIONS; TRANS/GAUCHE CONFORMATIONS;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; DITHIOL DERIVATIVE; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 38349173610     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0762386     Document Type: Article

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