Channel selective tunnelling through a nanographene assembly

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Wong, H S ^a   Feng, X ^b   Mullen K ^b   Chandrasekhar, N ^c   Durkan, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; ENERGY RANGES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; HBC MOLECULES; HEXA-PERI-HEXABENZOCORONENES; METALLIC TIPS; MOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; ORBITAL STATE; ORGANIC INTERFACES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPES; TUNNELLING JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERMI LEVEL; MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84857258010     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/9/095601     Document Type: Article

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