"Coulomb staircase" at room temperature in a self-assembled molecular nanostructure

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5266, 1996, Pages 1323-1325

  Andres, Ronald P ^a   Bein, Thomas ^a   Dorogi, Matt ^a   Feng, Sue ^a   Henderson, Jason I ^a   Kubiak, Clifford P ^a   Mahoney, William ^a   Osifchin, Richard G ^a   Reifenberger, R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4243090463     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5266.1323     Document Type: Article

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27. This research was funded in part by the Army Research Office under grant DAAL03-G-0144. S.F. and J.I.H. acknowledge Purdue Research Foundation graduate fellowships. T.B., R.P.A., and R.R. received funding from the National Science Foundation. The visit of J. Gomez from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid proved pivotal in acquiring reliable l(V,z) data. We also thank S. Datta and D. Janes for many useful discussions and T. Henderson for preparing figures.