Origin of negative differential resistance in a strongly coupled single molecule-metal junction device

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Pati, Ranjit ^a   McClain, Mike ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Anirban ^b  

^a Michigan Technological Institute   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; GOLD; HEALTH; IRON; LEAD; METALLIZING; MIXING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

(SPM) CLASSES; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); APPLIED BIAS; BROKEN SYMMETRY (BS); FIRST-PRINCIPLES; GOLD ELECTRODES; JUNCTION DEVICES; LINKER MOLECULES; NEGATIVE-DIFFERENTIAL-RESISTANCE (NDR); NEW PHASE (X-PHASE); ORBITALS; QUANTUM TRANSPORTS; SINGLE MOLECULE (SM); TERPYRIDINE;

MOLECULES;

EID: 45249087488     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.246801     Document Type: Article

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