Measurement of thermopower and current-voltage characteristics of molecular junctions to identify orbital alignment

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tan, Aaron ^a   Sadat, Seid ^a   Reddy, Pramod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; CHARGE TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GOLD SUBSTRATES; GOLD-COATED; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; POSITIVE VALUE; THERMOPOWERS;

FERMI LEVEL; FERMIONS; GOLD COATINGS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MONOLAYERS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 75749122623     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3291521     Document Type: Article

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