First-Principles studies of the dynamics of [2]rotaxane molecular switches

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3225-3229

  Phoa, Kinyip ^a   Neaton, J B ^b   Subramanian, Vivek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; APPLIED BIAS; CROSS-BAR MEMORIES; CROSSBAR ARRAYS; DEVICE GEOMETRIES; ELECTROSTATIC SCREENING; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; ENGINEERING PERFORMANCE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; MOLECULAR COMPONENTS; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; NANOSCALE ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC SYNTHESIS; P-PHENYLENE; RING SHAPED STRUCTURES; ROTAXANES; SWITCHING MECHANISM; SWITCHING SPEED; TETRATHIAFULVALENES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; SWITCHES;

SWITCHING;

DRUG DERIVATIVE; PARAQUAT; ROTAXANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARAQUAT; ROTAXANES;

EID: 70349958239     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl901478a     Document Type: Article

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