Charge transport through a cardan-joint molecule

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Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2229-2235

  Ruben, Mario ^a   Landa, Aitor ^a   Lörtscher, Emanuel ^b   Riel, Heike ^b   Mayor, Marcel ^c   Görls, Helmar ^d   Weber, Heiko B ^e   Arnold, Andreas ^a   Evers, Ferdinand ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Break junctions; Molecular electronics; Ruthenium complexes; Single molecule studies

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYES; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AB INITIO; AU ELECTRODES; BREAK JUNCTIONS; CHARGE TRANSPORTS; CONDUCTANCE PEAKS; CONJUGATED LINKERS; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; HIGH VACUUMS; MOLECULE LEVELS; PHENYLACETYLENE; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; TERPYRIDINE; TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS; V CURVES; X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIES;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RUTHENIUM;

EID: 57349148122     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800390     Document Type: Article

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