Designing organic spin filters in the coherent tunneling regime

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Herrmann, Carmen ^a,c   Solomon, Gemma C ^b   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE RING; COHERENT TUNNELING; DELOCALIZATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; GOLD ELECTRODES; SINGLY OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS; SPIN DELOCALIZATIONS; SPIN DENSITIES; SPIN FILTERING; SPIN FILTERS; SPIN ORIENTATIONS; STABLE ORGANIC RADICALS; STABLE RADICALS; SUBSTITUTED BENZENES;

BENZENE; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRODES; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 79959469293     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3598519     Document Type: Article

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