Bistable tunneling current through a molecular quantum dot

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Alexandrov, A S ^a,b   Bratkovsky, A M ^a   Williams, R Stanley ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; HYSTERESIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 4344666025     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.075301     Document Type: Article

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