The number of transmission channels through a single-molecule junction

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2707-2714

  Bergfield, Justin P ^a   Barr, Joshua D ^b   Stafford, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

lead molecule coupling; many body theory; single molecule junction; transmission channels; wave particle duality

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY; EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; MANY-BODY TECHNIQUES; MANY-BODY THEORY; METAL ELECTRODES; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY;

BENZENE; BUTADIENE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; PLATINUM; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955412415     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1030753     Document Type: Article

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