Creation of stable molecular junctions with a custom-designed scanning tunneling microscope

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 48, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Woochul ^a   Reddy, Pramod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK JUNCTIONS; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; MECHANICALLY STABLE; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; MOLECULE-METAL JUNCTIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; THERMAL DRIFTS; TRANSITION VOLTAGE;

MICROSCOPES; MOLECULES; SCANNING;

TUNNELS;

EID: 80855133504     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/48/485703     Document Type: Article

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