Controlling single-molecule negative differential resistance in a double-barrier tunnel hunction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Tu, X W ^a   Mikaelian, G ^a   Ho, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROWTH RATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; SUBSTRATES;

ATOMIC LAYERS; BARRIER HEIGHTS; COPPER-PHTHALOCYANINE (CUPC) MOLECULES; DOUBLE-BARRIER TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 41549124859     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.126807     Document Type: Article

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