Conductance, contacts, and interface states in single alkanedithiol molecular junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kaun, Chao Cheng ^a,b   Seideman, Tamar ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

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EID: 38549084745     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.033414     Document Type: Article

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