Conductance of a phenylene-vinylene molecular wire: Contact gap and tilt angle dependence

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Bilic A ^a,b   Crljen, Z ^c   Gumhalter, B ^d   Gale, J D ^e   Rungger, I ^f   Sanvito, S ^f  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Croatia)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 77955387618     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.155101     Document Type: Article

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