Resonant electron heating and molecular phonon cooling in single C60 junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Schulze, G ^a   Franke, K J ^a   Gagliardi, A ^b   Romano, G ^c   Lin, C S ^b   Rosa, A L ^b   Niehaus, T A ^b   Frauenheim, Th ^b   Di Carlo, A ^c   Pecchia, A ^c   Pascual, J I ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT LOSSES; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRON CURRENT; ELECTRON PHONON COUPLING; MOLECULAR RESONANCE STRUCTURE; RESONANT ELECTRON HEATING;

PHONONS;

EID: 41749112657     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.136801     Document Type: Article

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