Assembling molecular electronic junctions one molecule at a time

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4725-4729

  Bonifas, Andrew P ^a,b   McCreery, Richard L ^b,c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE MONOLAYERS; AZOBENZENE MOLECULES; CONDUCTING SURFACES; CONTACT AREAS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; DECAY CONSTANTS; EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; METAL ATOMS; METAL DEPOSITION; METAL DIFFUSION; METAL VAPOR; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC JUNCTION; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; MOLECULAR LAYER; MOLECULAR LENGTH; MOLECULAR MONOLAYER; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SINGLE MOLECULE CONDUCTANCE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DEVICES; STRUCTURAL DISTURBANCES;

GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; METALS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MONOLAYERS; PARAFFINS; VAPORS;

MOLECULES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROELECTRODES; MINIATURIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 80755125673     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl202495k     Document Type: Article

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