Communication: Mode-selective vibrational excitation induced by nonequilibrium transport processes in single-molecule junctions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Härtle, Rainer ^a   Volkovich, Roie ^b   Thoss, Michael ^a   Peskin, Uri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EXCHANGES; GENERIC MODELS; INTRAMOLECULAR DISTRIBUTION; LOCALIZED ELECTRONIC STATE; MASTER EQUATIONS; MODE FREQUENCIES; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; NANO SCALE; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NONEQUILIBRIUM TRANSPORT; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; VIBRATIONAL COOLING PROCESS; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

EQUATIONS OF STATE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

BIAS VOLTAGE;

EID: 77956326878     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3474464     Document Type: Article

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