Unified description of inelastic propensity rules for electron transport through nanoscale junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Paulsson, Magnus ^a,b   Frederiksen, Thomas ^c,d   Ueba, Hiromu ^b   Lorente, Nicolás ^b,e   Brandbyge, Mads ^f  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^d CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; PHONONS; SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); EIGEN-CHANNELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT (ET); ELECTRON-PHONON EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC CURRENTS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; NANOSCALE JUNCTIONS; SCATTERING STATES; VIBRATIONAL SYMMETRIES;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 44949195733     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.226604     Document Type: Article

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