Correlation analysis of atomic and single-molecule junction conductance

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3411-3423

  Makk, Péter ^a   Tomaszewski, Damian ^b   Martinek, Jan ^b   Balogh, Zoltán ^a   Csonka, Szabolcs ^a   Wawrzyniak, MacIej ^c   Frei, Michael ^d   Venkataraman, Latha ^d   Halbritter, András ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

conductance histogram .; correlation analysis; molecular electronics; single atom junction; single molecule junction

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CONDUCTANCE HISTOGRAMS; CONDUCTANCE VALUES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION EFFECT; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENTS; JUNCTION STRUCTURE; NANOSCALE JUNCTIONS; SINGLE ATOMS; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL RELATIONS;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GOLD; GRAPHIC METHODS; METAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLATINUM; TANTALUM; VANADIUM;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84860371203     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300440f     Document Type: Article

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