Nuclear coupling and polarization in molecular transport junctions: Beyond tunneling to function

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5866, 2008, Pages 1056-1060

  Galperin, Michael ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^b   Troisi, Alessandro ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLARIZATION; RESEARCH; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TUNNELING;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VIBRATION;

EID: 39749192478     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146556     Document Type: Review

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86. A.N. thanks the Israel Science Foundation, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the German Israel Fund. M.A.R. is grateful to the NSF (Chemistry, Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, and International), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency MolApps, NASA, and U.S. Department of Defense Multiple University Research Initiative. A.T. is grateful to the Royal Society (UK) for support. We thank P. Szuromi for very helpful suggestions.