Controlling the conductance of molecular wires by defect engineering

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nozaki, D ^a   Pastawski, H M ^b   Cuniberti, G ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; BAND GAPS; CHARGE TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; CONDUCTION CHANNEL; DEFECT ENGINEERING; DEFECT-FREE; DENSITY OF STATE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICE; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR WIRES; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ODD NUMBERS; SINGLE DEFECT; SOLITON FORMATION; ZERO-BIAS CONDUCTANCE;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOWIRES; SOLITONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIRE;

DEFECTS;

EID: 77953607654     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/063004     Document Type: Article

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