Observation of two discrete conductivity states in quinone-oligo(phenylene vinylene)

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Tsoi, Stanislav ^a   Griva, Igor ^b   Trammell, Scott A ^a   Kedziora, Gary ^c   Schnur, Joel M ^b   Lebedev, Nikolai ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c High Performance Technologies WPAFB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELOCALIZATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL GATES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GATE POTENTIALS; GOLD SUBSTRATES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MOLECULAR CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OLIGO(PHENYLENE VINYLENE); OXIDATION STATE; OXIDIZED STATE; REDUCED-STATE; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE CONDUCTIVITY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OXIDATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; WIND TUNNELS;

MOLECULES;

BENZOQUINONE; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; GOLD; OLIGO(P PHENYLENE VINYLENE); OLIGO(P-PHENYLENE VINYLENE); POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

BENZOQUINONES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYVINYLS;

EID: 76249088895     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/8/085704     Document Type: Article

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