An all-electric single-molecule motor

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6681-6686

  Seldenthuis, Johannes S ^a   Prins, Ferry ^a   Thijssen, Joseph M ^a   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Molecular dipole; Molecular electronics; Molecular motors; NEMS

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED BACKBONES; CONJUGATION; CURRENT DETECTION; DRIVING FORCES; ELECTRONIC DESIGN; FULL CONTROL; KEY PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL CONTROL; MOLECULAR DIPOLE; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MOLECULAR MOTORS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY CALCULATIONS; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DEVICES;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC);

LINEAR MOTORS;

EID: 78649615702     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1021499     Document Type: Article

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