Contact, charging, and disorder effects on charge transport through a model DNA molecule

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Zhu, Yu ^a   Kaun, Chao Cheng ^a   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARAMETER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 42749106794     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.245112     Document Type: Article

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