Photoinduced removal of the Franck-Condon blockade in single-electron inelastic charge transmission

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1095-1099

  May, Volkhard ^a,b   Kühn, Oliver ^a,b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOEXCITATION;

DE EXCITATIONS; ELECTRON-HOLE PAIRS; ELECTRON-VIBRATIONAL COUPLINGS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS; FRANCK-CONDON; INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTIONS; METAL-MOLECULE-METAL JUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR STATE; NEW MECHANISMS; OPTICAL DRIVINGS; PHOTO-INDUCED; SINGLE ELECTRONS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 48449084383     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl073150h     Document Type: Article

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