Long-range electron tunnelling in oligo-porphyrin molecular wires

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 517-523

  Sedghi, Gita ^a   García Suárez, Víctor M ^b,c   Esdaile, Louisa J ^d   Anderson, Harry L ^d   Lambert, Colin J ^b   Martín, Santiago ^a,e   Bethell, Donald ^a   Higgins, Simon J ^a   Elliott, Martin ^f   Bennett, Neil ^f   MacDonald, J Emyr ^f   Nichols, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CINN CSIC UNIOVI PA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MOLECULES; NANOWIRES; WIRE;

ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LENGTH DEPENDENCE; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PORPHYRIN MOLECULES; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

PORPHYRINS;

NANOWIRE; PORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEVICE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 79961209824     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.111     Document Type: Article

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