The influence of thermal fluctuations on the electronic transport of alkeno-thiolates

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 353-357

  Pecchia, Alessandro ^a   Gheorghe, Marieta ^b   Latessa, Luca ^a   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a   Lugli, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Institute of Nanotechnology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent tunneling; Molecular electronics; Molecular vibrations

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; GOLD; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ALKENO-THIOLATES; COHERENT TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS;

EID: 4544388684     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2004.828573     Document Type: Article

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