Nanogap structures for molecular nanoelectronics

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Motto, Paolo ^a   Dimonte, Alice ^b   Rattalino, Ismael ^b   Demarchi, Danilo ^a   Piccinini, Gianluca ^a   Civera, Pierluigi ^a  

^a Department of Electronics ^*  (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; NANOELECTRONICS;

CUSTOM HARDWARES; ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONS; METAL MOLECULES; MOLECULAR NANOELECTRONICS; NANOGAP FABRICATION; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; ORGANIC MOLECULES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84857878948     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-113     Document Type: Article

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