Orbital-symmetry-dependent electron transfer through molecules assembled on metal substrates

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 436-440

  Blobner, Florian ^a   Coto, Pedro B ^b   Allegretti, Francesco ^a   Bockstedte, Michel ^b   Rubio Pons, Oscar ^a,b   Wang, Haobin ^c   Allara, David L ^d   Zharnikov, Michael ^e   Thoss, Michael ^b   Feulner, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE-TRANSFER DYNAMICS; CORE-HOLE CLOCK; ELECTRON-TRANSFER; END GROUPS; FEMTOSECONDS; GOLD SUBSTRATES; K-SHELLS; METAL SUBSTRATE; ORBITALS; SULFUR ATOMS; SYMMETRY SELECTION RULES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; X RAY PHOTONS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; DYNAMICS; ETHANE; EXCITED STATES; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SULFUR;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84863063123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2015567     Document Type: Review

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