Portrait of the potential barrier at metal-organic nanocontacts

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 320-323

  Vitali, Lucia ^a   Levita, Giacomo ^a,b   Ohmann, Robin ^a   Comisso, Alessio ^c   De Vita, Alessandro ^c   Kern, Klaus ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOIC ACID; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MODULATION; MOLECULES; ORGANOMETALLICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EXTRACTION PROCESS; INTERFACE POTENTIALS; METAL-MOLECULE CONTACTS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS;

METALS;

EID: 77950021628     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2625     Document Type: Article

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