Transient dynamics of molecular devices under a steplike pulse bias

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Bin ^a   Xing, Yanxia ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 77955130381     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.121103     Document Type: Article

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