Identifying the length dependence of orbital alignment and contact coupling in molecular heterojunctions

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1164-1169

  Malen, Jonathan A ^a,b   Doak, Peter ^b,c   Baheti, Kanhayalal ^c   Don Tilley, T ^b,c   Segalman, Rachel A ^b,c,d   Majumdar, Arun ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING GROUPS; CONTACT STATE; FERMI ENERGIES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS; LENGTH DEPENDENCES; LOWEST UN-OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS; METAL CONTACTS; METAL-INDUCED GAP STATE; METAL-MOLECULE-METAL JUNCTIONS; THERMOPOWER;

ALIGNMENT; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; METALS; MOLECULAR MODELING; PARAFFINS; SULFUR;

MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

METAL; METAL NANOPARTICLE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 65249085776     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl803814f     Document Type: Article

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