Probing local electric field and conformational switching in single-molecule break junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Rahimi, Maryam ^a,b   Troisi, Alessandro ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65149104931     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.113413     Document Type: Article

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