Ab initio investigation of the I - V characteristics of the phenoxynaphthacenequinone-based optical molecular switch

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 5811-5815

  Zhao, P ^a,b   Liu, D S ^a,c   Xie, S J ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^c JINING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Molecular electronics; Non equilibrium Green's function; Optical molecular switch; Phenoxynaphthacenequinone

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

AB INITIO INVESTIGATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM; OPTICAL MOLECULAR SWITCHES; PHENOXYNAPHTHACENEQUINONE; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 49149098261     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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