Compensation of Coulomb blocking and energy transfer in the current voltage characteristic of molecular conduction junctions

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2228-2232

  Li, Guangqi ^a   Shishodia, Manmohan S ^b,c   Fainberg, Boris D ^b,c   Apter, Boris ^b   Oren, Michal ^c   Nitzan, Abraham ^c   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coulomb blocking; energy transfer; exciton effects; Molecular conduction nanojunctions; plasmonic effects

Indexed keywords

COULOMB BLOCKING; COULOMB REPULSIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE; MOLECULAR CONDUCTION; MOLECULAR NANOJUNCTIONS; NANOJUNCTIONS; ON CURRENTS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES;

EXCITONS; PLASMONS;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 84861037099     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl204130d     Document Type: Article

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