Conduction switching of photochromic molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Li, Jun ^a   Speyer, Gil ^b   Sankey, Otto F ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS (HOMO); LOCAL-DENSITY APPROXIMATION (LDA); LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS (LUMO); PHOTOCHROMIC MOLECULES; QUANTUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (QMD);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DERIVATIVES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; ISOMERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOCHROMISM; QUANTUM THEORY; SWITCHING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 42749105633     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.248302     Document Type: Article

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