Negative differential resistance behaviors in porphyrin molecular junctions modulated with side groups

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Long, Meng Qiu ^a   Chen, Ke Qiu ^a   Wang, Lingling ^b   Qing, Wan ^a   Zou, B S ^a   Shuai, Z ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HEALTH; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; PORPHYRINS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

(PL) PROPERTIES; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT); ELECTRON DONATING GROUPS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT (ET); ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES (ETP); MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS; NEGATIVE-DIFFERENTIAL-RESISTANCE (NDR); NON EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTIONS (NEGF);

MOLECULES;

EID: 45749140038     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2924364     Document Type: Article

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