Motor effect in electron transport through a molecular junction with torsional vibrations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Pshenichnyuk, Ivan A ^a   Čížek, Martin ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 79961088828     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.165446     Document Type: Article

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