Engineering the figure of merit and thermopower in single-molecule devices connected to semiconducting electrodes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Nozaki, D ^a   Sevincli H ^a   Li, W ^a   Gutierrez R ^a   Cuniberti, G ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 77956337859     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.235406     Document Type: Article

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