Understanding and controlling crosstalk between parallel molecular wires

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1667-1671

  Reuter, Matthew G ^a   Solomon, Gemma C ^b   Hansen, Thorsten ^c   Seideman, Tamar ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; WIRE;

CO-OPERATIVE EFFECTS; CONDUCTION CHANNEL; GENERAL MODEL; MOLECULAR WIRES; PHASE INTERFERENCE;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 79960738189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200658h     Document Type: Article

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