Kondo resonances in molecular devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3560-3579

  Scott, Gavin David ^a   Natelson, Douglas ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

break junction; emergent phenomena; highly correlated electron state; Kondo effect; magnetic interaction; molecular electronics; single molecule device; STM; transport

Indexed keywords

BREAK JUNCTIONS; EMERGENT PHENOMENON; HIGHLY CORRELATED ELECTRON STATE; HIGHLY CORRELATED ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC INTERACTION; MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; SINGLE-MOLECULE DEVICES;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON DEVICES; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; KONDO EFFECT; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; RESONANCE; SPIN DYNAMICS; SYNTHETIC METALS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77955522279     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100793s     Document Type: Review

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