Binary self-assembled monolayers: Apparent exponential dependence of resistance on average molecular length

Organic Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 857-864

  Katsouras, Ilias ^a   Geskin, Victor ^b   Kronemeijer, Auke J ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a,c   De Leeuw, Dago M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alkanethiols; Electrical transport; Mixed monolayers; Molecular junction; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ALKANETHIOLS; BINARY SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; MICRO-DOMAIN STRUCTURES; MIXED MONOLAYERS; MIXED SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 79952810344     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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