Polarizabilities of adsorbed and assembled molecules: Measuring the conductance through buried contacts

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7630-7636

  Moore, Amanda M ^a   Yeganeh, Sina ^b   Yao, Yuxing ^c   Claridge, Shelley A ^d   Tour, James M ^c   Ratner, Mark A ^b   Weiss, Paul S ^a,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

contacts; microwave measurements; molecular devices; polarizability; scanning tunneling microscopy; self assembly; single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED MOLECULES; BURIED CONTACT; CONDUCTANCE STATE; CONTACTS; MOLECULAR DEVICE; MOLECULE ELECTRONICS; OXIDATION STATE; POLARIZABILITIES; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; POLARIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MOLECULES;

GOLD;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADSORPTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MICROWAVES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78650739916     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102371z     Document Type: Article

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