Universal temperature crossover behavior of electrical conductance in a single oligothiophene molecular wire

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5078-5082

  Lee, See Kei ^a   Yamada, Ryo ^a   Tanaka, Shoji ^b   Chang, Gap Soo ^c   Asai, Yoshihiro ^d   Tada, Hirokazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

hopping; molecular electronics; oligothiophene; temperature dependence of molecular conductance; tunneling

Indexed keywords

CROSSOVER BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOPPING; KELDYSH GREEN'S FUNCTION; LENGTH DEPENDENCE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR WIRES; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; SCALING FUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; UNIVERSAL DESCRIPTION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

NANOWIRES;

NANOPARTICLE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84862856410     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3006976     Document Type: Article

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