First-principles investigation of dynamical properties of molecular devices under a steplike pulse

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Xing, Yanxia ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^a   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 78649737061     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.205112     Document Type: Article

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