Passing current through touching molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Schull, Guillaume ^a,d   Frederiksen, Thomas ^b   Brandbyge, Mads ^c   Berndt, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C60 MOLECULES; CHARGE FLOW; CONTACT CONDUCTANCE; CU ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE GEOMETRIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; INTERMOLECULAR LINKS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SINGLE MOLECULE; TRANSPORT CALCULATION;

ELECTRODES; ELECTRONIC STATES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 70449337348     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.206803     Document Type: Article

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